We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
AGNES DENESI’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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