We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
AGNES DENESPattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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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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