I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.
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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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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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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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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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’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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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 had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
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I didn’t get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
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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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People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
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