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

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.

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.

People always understand everything in retrospect.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.

My work is about helping humanity.

When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”

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

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.

I am convinced that knowledge is power – to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…

People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.

I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.