Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
AGNES DENESThere 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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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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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 don’t hurt what they love.
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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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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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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 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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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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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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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years.
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