If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESAnything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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