Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth29 July 1950
CountryUnited States of America
outsiders revolutionary produce
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.
new-york independent writing
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
be-kind kind
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
desire agents numb
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.
Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.
important
Being happy is more important than anything else.
self way interest
It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.
flow going-with-the-flow soothing
Going with the flow is soothing but risky.
law faithfulness social
Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.
couple simple important
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.
sleep night thinking
I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.
sex urges
What urge will save us now that sex won't?
mind conscious conscious-mind
At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
crazy boredom crazy-things
Boredom makes you do crazy things