Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
AGNES DENESPeople are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn’t want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.
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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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 don’t hurt what they love.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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