Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 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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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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