Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
AGNES DENESSomething to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 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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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 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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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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