Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
AGNES DENESI study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
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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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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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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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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they’re locked into their little specializations.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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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 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 have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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