30 Quotes by Agnes Denes

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

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.

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

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

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

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 involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

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

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.

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, and went into the environment.