Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESMaybe 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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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