If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESPublic art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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I always was alone. And I’m alone today. It’s fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
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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.
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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.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
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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.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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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.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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