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A little knowledge can go a long way.

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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
Knowledge
Art
Littles
Little
Long
Way

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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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A lot of professionals are crackpots.
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Any surplus is immoral.
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Being happy is more important than anything else.
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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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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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Exceptional people deserve special concessions.
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I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
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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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Boredom makes you do crazy things
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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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When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.
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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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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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Ensure that your life stays in flux.
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Expressing anger is necessary.
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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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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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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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The most profound things are inexpressible.
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