Occupation: Artist Birth: May 31, 1938
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, o….
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did..
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..
I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to pla….
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; thos….
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth..
Most wonderful things are unconscious..
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in….
People always understand everything in retrospect..
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form..
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats..
I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day..
I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together..
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. ….
If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person..
When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?".
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 I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet.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….
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 ….
I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school..
People don't hurt what they love..
Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe ….