We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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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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And I even like my own company. But when I’m alone, it’s to read or write. I’m in my thoughts. Mostly I’m learning.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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