Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESI hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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