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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
Art
Littles
Little
Long
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Knowledge

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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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Expressing anger is necessary.
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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 am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
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Lack of charisma can be fatal.
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It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
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If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.
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A lot of professionals are crackpots.
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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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The most profound things are inexpressible.
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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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It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons
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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
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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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Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway
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Boredom makes you do crazy things
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Ensure that your life stays in flux.
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I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.
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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 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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