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 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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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 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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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