The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
AGNES DENESThe tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
AGNES DENESI studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
AGNES DENESI had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
AGNES DENESWhen I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
AGNES DENESI 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.
AGNES DENESI didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
AGNES DENESI never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESPhilosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
AGNES DENESI study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESPattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESMaybe 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.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
AGNES DENESThere are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
AGNES DENESEvery one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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