I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
AGNES DENESI hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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