So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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