There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
AGNES DENESPeople have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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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If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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