Jenny Holzer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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'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.”

“Lack of charisma can be fatal.”

“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.”

“The most profound things are inexpressible.”

“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.”

“Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.”

“It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.”

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

“Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.”