People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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