“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.”

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.

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

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.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.

I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

The longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

Beautiful woman are like bees, stuck in their own honey.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.