When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

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.

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, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

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 it; I started what then became a movement.