Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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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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