Jenny Holzer
Artist
1950-07-29
Quotes by Jenny Holzer
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When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.
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If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
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If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.
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When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.
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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.
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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
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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.
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I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.
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I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.
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Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.
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One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
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The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
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I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.
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I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
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It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
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