I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESThere are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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