We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
AGNES DENESMost wonderful things are unconscious.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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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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