Agnes Denes Quotes

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.

My work is about helping humanity.

When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.

I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.

I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.