“Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.”

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.

The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.

Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.

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

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.

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

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.

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

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

Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.

I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.

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.

I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.

People don’t hurt what they love.

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

I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

Help along one another’s projects and plans.

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.

If you have a surreal life like I do, you’ve got to have fun along the way.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.