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A lot of professionals are crackpots.

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Jenny Holzer
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 29
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Drawer
Painter
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Gallipolis
Ohio
G'eni Holtser
Crackpots
Professionals

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I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
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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.
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I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.
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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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I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.
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The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.
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If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
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It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
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I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
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Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations
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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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At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
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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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Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway
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It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons
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Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance
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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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Being happy is more important than anything else.
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THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
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Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.
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