Jenny Holzer Quotes: top 97 famous quotes about Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. — Jenny Holzer

Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity. — Jenny Holzer

Raise boys and girls the same way. — Jenny Holzer

SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST. — Jenny Holzer

What urge will save us now that sex won't? — Jenny Holzer

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider. — Jenny Holzer

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go. — Jenny Holzer

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world. — Jenny Holzer

Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age. — Jenny Holzer

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. — Jenny Holzer

It's better to be a good person than a famous person. — Jenny Holzer

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

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons — Jenny Holzer

Exceptional people deserve special concessions. — Jenny Holzer

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. — Jenny Holzer

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

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean. — Jenny Holzer

Stupid people shouldn't breed. — Jenny Holzer

WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
THE BACK OF THE THROAT. — Jenny Holzer

A little knowledge can go a long way. — Jenny Holzer

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later. — Jenny Holzer

She has no taste left to her and this makes it easier for me.
The color of her where she is inside is enough to make me kill her. — Jenny Holzer

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me. — Jenny Holzer

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

All things are delicately interconnected. — Jenny Holzer

A lot of professionals are crackpots. — Jenny Holzer

A sense of duty imprisons you. — Jenny Holzer

THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE? — Jenny Holzer

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

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe — Jenny Holzer

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of — Jenny Holzer

I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
AND IT DOES ME
NO GOOD AT ALL — Jenny Holzer

You are a victim of the rules you live by. — Jenny Holzer

I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK
AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES
AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT
THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME. — Jenny Holzer

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WAS
DISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGH
SUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS. — Jenny Holzer

Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance. — Jenny Holzer

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations — Jenny Holzer

Fear is the greatest incapacitator. — Jenny Holzer

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

You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me. — Jenny Holzer

Being happy is more important than anything else. — Jenny Holzer

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary. — Jenny Holzer

Going with the flow is soothing but risky. — Jenny Holzer

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire. — Jenny Holzer

HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM
AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,
MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,
DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR. — Jenny Holzer

There's a fine line between information and propaganda. — Jenny Holzer

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women — Jenny Holzer

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating. — Jenny Holzer

I try to excite myself so I stay crazy. — Jenny Holzer

Any surplus is immoral. — Jenny Holzer

The most profound things are inexpressible. — Jenny Holzer

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway. — Jenny Holzer

If you have many desires your life will be interesting. — Jenny Holzer

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender. — Jenny Holzer

It's fun wandering around other people's minds. — Jenny Holzer

Everyone's work is equally important. — Jenny Holzer

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law. — Jenny Holzer

Drama often obscures the real issues — Jenny Holzer

Protect me from what I want. — Jenny Holzer

Knowing yourself lets you understand others. — Jenny Holzer

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS. — Jenny Holzer

Remember you always have freedom of choice. — Jenny Holzer

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

A name means a lot just by itself. — Jenny Holzer

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

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius. — Jenny Holzer

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison — Jenny Holzer

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular. — Jenny Holzer

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand. — Jenny Holzer

It's important to keep life simple, and if I'm traveling, I only can do a couple of things, and those are the things that I'm meant to be doing. — Jenny Holzer

With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death. — Jenny Holzer

Abuse of power comes as no surprise — Jenny Holzer

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely. — Jenny Holzer

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind — Jenny Holzer

Expressing anger is necessary. — Jenny Holzer

An elite is inevitable. — Jenny Holzer

Boredom makes you do crazy things. — Jenny Holzer

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning. — Jenny Holzer

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid. — Jenny Holzer

IF THE HOUSE IS BITTER COLD,
ALL THE FLUIDS THEREIN,
IF NOT FROZEN, ARE STIFF AND SLOW. — Jenny Holzer

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force — Jenny Holzer

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. — Jenny Holzer

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time. — Jenny Holzer

Ensure that your life stays in flux. — Jenny Holzer

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

With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien. — Jenny Holzer

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime. — Jenny Holzer

In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy. — Jenny Holzer

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy — Jenny Holzer

WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN. — Jenny Holzer

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

IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
AND GETTING BITS STUCK
IN THEIR NOSES. — Jenny Holzer

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting. — Jenny Holzer

IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING
WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE
TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS
FROM SEX AND SURGERY. — Jenny Holzer

Company makes my day. — Jenny Holzer