People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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