I never considered myself a performance artist.
AGNES DENESAnd 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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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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 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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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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I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on 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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People don’t hurt what they love.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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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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