I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESOne 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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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 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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