Artist Quotes by Agnes Denes

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the…

— Agnes Denes

What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas,…

— Agnes Denes

People don't hurt what they love.

— Agnes Denes

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

— Agnes Denes

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why…

— Agnes Denes

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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't…

— Agnes Denes

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

— Agnes Denes

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

— Agnes Denes

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't…

— Agnes Denes

I never considered myself a performance artist.

— Agnes Denes

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

— Agnes Denes

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

— Agnes Denes

I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

— Agnes Denes

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

— Agnes Denes

I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.

— Agnes Denes