Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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