I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
AGNES DENESI 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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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