People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
AGNES DENESAnd 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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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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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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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 didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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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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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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