Jenny Holzer

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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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! ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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

— Jenny Holzer

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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. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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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. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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Lack of charisma can be fatal. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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It's fun wandering around other people's minds. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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