I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESThinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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 always understand everything in retrospect.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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