We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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