People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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 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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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