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.
AGNES DENESPattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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People don’t hurt what they love.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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