I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
AGNES DENESI 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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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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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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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