If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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