Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
AGNES DENESPeople always understand everything in retrospect.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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