I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
AGNES DENESWhat 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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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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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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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My work is about helping humanity.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet.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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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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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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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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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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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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