Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I 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.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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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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