Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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