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.
AGNES DENESSomething to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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 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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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