Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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