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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
Littles
Little
Long
Way
Knowledge
Art

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On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.
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A lot of professionals are crackpots.
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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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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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Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance
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The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.
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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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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
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Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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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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I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
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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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It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
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Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations
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It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons
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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 moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
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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 wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
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