Jenny Holzer Quotes - Page 2

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

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.

Drama often obscures the real issues

The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Boredom makes you do crazy things

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Expressing anger is necessary.

Everyone's work is equally important.

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

What urge will save us now that sex won't?

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

A lot of professionals are crackpots.

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

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.

SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.