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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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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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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’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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