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 DENESMost wonderful things are unconscious.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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