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
art suspect
I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
mindless inactivity
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
victim live-by
You are a victim of the rules you live by.
hands weapons messy
Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy
sake slipping madness
Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison
profound
The most profound things are inexpressible.
crackpots
A lot of professionals are crackpots.
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.
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.
charisma
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
posters epiphany streets
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.
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.
be-kind kind
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
outsiders revolutionary produce
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.