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.
AGNES DENESIf I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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