Words 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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
AGNES DENESSo the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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 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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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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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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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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