I wish I didn’t have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
AGNES DENESI 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 study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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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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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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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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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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