Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
AGNES DENESPattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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