We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
AGNES DENESThere are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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 hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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