I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
AGNES DENESI studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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 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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