I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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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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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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