The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
AGNES DENESWords 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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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 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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Every one of my works, when I’m looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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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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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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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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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 never considered myself a performance artist.
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