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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
AGNES DENESIf 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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