People don’t hurt what they love.
AGNES DENESI’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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