Latest Agnes Denes Quotes from Interviews

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

  Agnes Denes

  Flower, Littles, Bees

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Wish, Daily Problems, Learning More

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Agnes Denes

  Philosophy, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

  Agnes Denes

  Strong, Important, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

  Agnes Denes

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

  Agnes Denes

  Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Agnes Denes

  Use, Grows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Agnes Denes

  Hate, Tag, Requirements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet.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.

  Agnes Denes

  Writing, Expression, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Agnes Denes

  Art, May, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

  Agnes Denes

  Lonely, Writing, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Together, Lots Of Friends, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Agnes Denes

  Philosopher, Precedent, Precedence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

  Agnes Denes

  Likes, Fit, Precedent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

  Agnes Denes

  Beautiful, Two, Creating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Agnes Denes

  Gone, Sitting, Cafes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

  Agnes Denes

  Drawing, Firsts, Mathematics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People always understand everything in retrospect.

  Agnes Denes

  People, Retrospect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People don't hurt what they love.

  Agnes Denes

  Hurt, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

  Agnes Denes

  Different, Fields, Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 maybe change direction.

  Agnes Denes

  Attention, Pay, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.

  Agnes Denes

  Fighting, Reality, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My work is about helping humanity.

  Agnes Denes

  Humanity, Helping, Helping Humanity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I never considered myself a performance artist.

  Agnes Denes

  Artist, Performances

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Agnes Denes

  Landscape, Lasts, Canvas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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