Top 100 Jenny Holzer Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Jenny Holzer

#1. IF THE HOUSE IS BITTER COLD,
ALL THE FLUIDS THEREIN,
IF NOT FROZEN, ARE STIFF AND SLOW.

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#2. It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

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#3. Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

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#4. Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force

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#5. One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

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

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#7. Protect me from what I want.

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

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#9. All things are delicately interconnected.

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#10. WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.

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#11. If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

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#12. Drama often obscures the real issues

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#13. IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND
THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP,
NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH,
AND REPEAT THE CYCLE.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.

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#14. 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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#15. There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

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#16. IT'S NICE WHEN YOU DECIDE TO LIKE SOMEONE
AND, WITHOUT DECLARING YOURSELF,
DO WHAT'S POSSIBLE
TO FURTHER HIS HAPPINESS.
THIS CAN TAKE THE FORM OF GIFTS,
LOVELY FOOD, PUBLICITY, OR
ADVANCED WARNING.

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#17. HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM
AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS,
MEMORIES, HUMILIATION,
DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.

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

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

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#20. It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

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#21. An elite is inevitable.

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#22. What urge will save us now that sex won't?

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#23. Remember you always have freedom of choice.

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#24. Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

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#25. Being happy is more important than anything else.

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

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#27. 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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#28. Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

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#29. It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

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#30. It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

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#31. THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?

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#32. A lot of professionals are crackpots.

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#33. Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

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#34. 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.

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#35. So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

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#36. 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.

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

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#39. At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

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#40. MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH
TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS.
I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHER
I WAS CRYING OR WHETHER IT
IS INVOLUNTARY, LIKE DROOLING.

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#41. Expressing anger is necessary.

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#42. FEW CAN IGNORE A BABY'S CRIES,
EVEN IF THE RESPONSE IS IRRITATION.
THIS IS ONE OF THE BUILT IN SAFEGUARDS
THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GUARANTEE
THE SURVIVAL OF THE RACE.

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#43. Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

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#44. Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.

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#45. A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

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#46. Raise boys and girls the same way.

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#47. A little knowledge can go a long way.

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#48. 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.

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#49. Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

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#50. 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.

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#51. Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

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#52. In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.

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#53. You confuse me with something that is in you. I will not predict how you want to use me.

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#54. 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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#55. I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

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#56. 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.

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#57. Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

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#58. 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.

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

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#60. BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS
EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED
AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU.
YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE,
WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO,
AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE
IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

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#61. I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.

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#62. Any surplus is immoral.

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#63. OBVIOUSLY YOU STRIKE OUT
AGAINST PEOPLE WITHIN RANGE.
IT'S CATHARTIC TO AFFECT
SOMEONE WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY.
ALTERNATIVELY, CHOOSE
ENEMIES IMPOSSIBLY FAR AWAY
SO YOU NEVER HAVE TO FIGHT.

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

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#66. You are a victim of the rules you live by.

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#67. 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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#68. SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO NIBBLE ON
THE INSIDES OF THEIR OWN CHEEKS.
IV'E SEEN AN OTHERWISE LOVELY GIRL
CONTORT HER FACE TO REACH A FAVORITE SPOT.
THERE ARE BIT LINES WHERE REPEATED NIPS
HAVE BUILT RIDGES OF SCAR TISSUE.

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#69. With you inside me comes the knowledge of my death.

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#70. Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.

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#71. Abuse of power comes as no surprise

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#72. Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

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#73. WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD
THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT
THE BACK OF THE THROAT.

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

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#75. Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

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#76. Fear is the greatest incapacitator.

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

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#78. Company makes my day.

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

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#80. A sense of duty imprisons you.

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#81. I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

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#82. A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

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#83. Boredom makes you do crazy things.

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#84. THERE'S NO REASON TO SLEEP
CURLED UP AND BENT.
IT'S NOT COMFORTABLE,
IT'S NOT GOOD FOR YOU, AND IT
DOESN'T PROTECT YOU FROM DANGER.
IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT AN ATTACK
YOU SHOULD STAY AWAKE
OR SLEEP LIGHTLY WITH
LIMBS UNFURLED FOR ACTION.

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#85. Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

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#86. At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

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#87. Everyone's work is equally important.

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#88. I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
AND IT DOES ME
NO GOOD AT ALL

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#89. I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

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#90. Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.

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#91. Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

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#92. Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

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#93. Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.

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#94. 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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