Jenny Holzer Quotes

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Stupid people shouldn’t breed.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

Raise boys and girls the same way.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

Any surplus is immoral.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.

HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITIONTO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLEOR EVEN ANIMALS?OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS ISSMOTHERED OR CONTORTED.WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH, EVERYONE IS HAPPY.

MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITHTEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS.I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHERI WAS CRYING OR WHETHER ITIS INVOLUNTARY, LIKE DROOLING.

HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROMAWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS, MEMORIES, HUMILIATION, DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUTAGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECTSOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSEENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAYSO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WASDISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGHSUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.