I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESWhen I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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