There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
AGNES DENESWhen I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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