People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESMy work is about helping humanity.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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