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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
AGNES DENESAnd 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.
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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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