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

- Agnes Denes

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

- Agnes Denes

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 pla…

- 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 get involved in…

- Agnes Denes

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

- Agnes Denes

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; thos…

- Agnes Denes

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

- 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 wall, and went into the environment.

- Agnes Denes

People always understand everything in retrospect.

- Agnes Denes