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.
AGNES DENESI 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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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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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