I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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