People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESAnything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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One thing that’s paramount in my life is that I am alone. I’m a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don’t feel lonely.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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