I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
AGNES DENESPublic 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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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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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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.
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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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 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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