I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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