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A little knowledge can go a long way.

Jenny Holzer

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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
Littles
Little
Long
Way
Knowledge
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The most profound things are inexpressible.
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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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I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
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Any surplus is immoral.
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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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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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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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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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A sense of duty imprisons you.
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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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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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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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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
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Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance
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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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The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
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It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
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On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.
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Boredom makes you do crazy things
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It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons
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