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Jenny Holzer's Profile

Brief about Jenny Holzer: By info that we know Jenny Holzer was born at 1950-07-29. And also Jenny Holzer is American Artist.

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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.

Tags: Public, Sense, Work

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

Tags: Nice, Put, Wanted

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.

Tags: Alone, Death, Work

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.

Tags: Interested, Making, Started

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.

Tags: Film, Making, Natural

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.

Tags: Art, Others, Star

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

Tags: Bad, Fake, Life

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

Tags: Away, Laundry, Succeed

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

Tags: Charisma, Fatal, Lack

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

Tags: Art, Lonely, Making

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

Tags: Beautiful, Love, Stupid

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.

Tags: Dangerous, Support, Wanted

Protect me from what I want.

Tags: Protect

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Tags: Attention, Hope, Lovely

Company makes my day.

Tags: Company, Makes

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

Tags: Anytime, Exploded, Free

I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material.

Tags: Material, Short, Writing

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

Tags: Started, Study, Writing

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

Tags: Art, Understand, Wanted

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

Tags: Abstract, Painter, Wanted
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