Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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 like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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