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 DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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