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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
Professionals
Crackpots

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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
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A little knowledge can go a long way.
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Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway
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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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Protect me from what I want.
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Abuse of power comes as no surprise
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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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Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force
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Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance
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Stupid people shouldn’t breed.
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I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
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The most profound things are inexpressible.
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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.
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Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.
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If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
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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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Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.
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At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
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Being happy is more important than anything else.
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