Best 89 quotes of Jenny Holzer on MyQuotes

Abuse of power comes as no surprise

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

All things are delicately interconnected.

A name means a lot just by itself.

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.

A sense of duty imprisons you.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Boredom makes you do crazy things

BY YOUR RESPONSE TO DANGER IT IS EASY TO TELL HOW YOU HAVE LIVED AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO YOU. YOU SHOW WHETHER YOU WANT TO STAY ALIVE, WHETHER YOU THINK YOU DESERVE TO, AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT'S ANY GOOD TO ACT.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

Drama often obscures the real issues

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

Ensure that your life stays in flux.

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

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.

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.

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.

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.

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

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

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!

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

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

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

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.

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

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.

I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

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

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

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

Raise boys and girls the same way.

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

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