I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
AGNES DENESOne 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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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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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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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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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