I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
AGNES DENESWhat 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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’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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My work is about helping humanity.
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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