Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
AGNES DENESThere’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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