I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESI always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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