Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
AGNES DENESPeople don’t hurt what they love.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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