People always understand everything in retrospect.
AGNES DENESAnd 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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