Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
AGNES DENESMaybe 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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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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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