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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
AGNES DENESSociety likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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 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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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