All Agnes Denes Quotes
- 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 get… All
- I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school. Inspirational
- 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 wall,… Environment
- 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… Act
- Most wonderful things are unconscious. Inspirational
- I never considered myself a performance artist. Artist
- People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats. Always Fighting
- My work is about helping humanity. Helping
- Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and… Attention
- People don't hurt what they love. Hurt
- I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine… All
- People always understand everything in retrospect. Always Understand
- When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?" Agnes
- I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form. Drawing
- 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 my… All
- Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left… Any
- There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did. Inspirational
- I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together. Alone
- One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel… Alone
- If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person. Art
- I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them. Change
- 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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been… Been
- We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow. Good
- Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings. Funny
- People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think. Day