Jenny Holzer

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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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. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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Protect me from what I want. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#me #protect #want

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#over #sloppy #thinking #time #worse

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#because #crippled #documentary #documentary film #essentials

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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The most profound things are inexpressible. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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