I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
AGNES DENESMost wonderful things are unconscious.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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 don’t hurt what they love.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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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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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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