If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
AGNES DENESWhen 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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated.
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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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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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