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.
AGNES DENESSomething to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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 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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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