There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.
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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 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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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