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.
AGNES DENESWhen I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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