84+ Jenny Holzer Quotes On Art, Politics And Communism

Jenny Holzer is an American Conceptual and Installation artist. She is best known for her text-based public art installations, which often use a variety of media such as LED displays, projections, and posters. Holzer's works are often politically charged and address topics such as gender, power, and war. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jenny Holzer on art, politics, communism.

Top 10 Jenny Holzer Quotes

1. At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.
2. TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.
3. THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.
4. Abuse of power comes as no surprise
5. It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
6. Lack of charisma can be fatal.
7. Going with the flow is soothing but risky.
8. Expressing anger is necessary.
9. 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!
10. Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway

Jenny Holzer Short Quotes

• It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
• Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.
• Boredom makes you do crazy things
• Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity
• Knowing yourself lets you understand others.
• Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of
• The most profound things are inexpressible.
• Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.
• At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind
• Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer Quotes About Art

Remember you always have freedom of choice. — Jenny Holzer

If you have many desires your life will be interesting. — Jenny Holzer

Exceptional people deserve special concessions. — Jenny Holzer

Ensure that your life stays in flux. — Jenny Holzer

All things are delicately interconnected. — Jenny Holzer

A name means a lot just by itself. — Jenny Holzer

A positive attitude means all the difference in the world. — Jenny Holzer

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

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

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

Jenny Holzer Quotes About Love

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. — Jenny Holzer

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women — Jenny Holzer

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance — Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Jenny Holzer

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. — Jenny Holzer

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. — Jenny Holzer

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. — Jenny Holzer

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

Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways. — Jenny Holzer

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone. — Jenny Holzer

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

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. — Jenny Holzer

Being happy is more important than anything else. — Jenny Holzer

A lot of professionals are crackpots. — Jenny Holzer

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

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. — Jenny Holzer

I try to excite myself so I stay crazy. — Jenny Holzer

What urge will save us now that sex won't? — Jenny Holzer

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go. — Jenny Holzer

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. — Jenny Holzer

You are a victim of the rules you live by. — Jenny Holzer

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

A little knowledge can go a long way. — Jenny Holzer

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine. — Jenny Holzer

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons — Jenny Holzer

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. — Jenny Holzer

Raise boys and girls the same way. — Jenny Holzer

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius. — Jenny Holzer

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

Stupid people shouldn’t breed. — Jenny Holzer

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison — Jenny Holzer

Drama often obscures the real issues — Jenny Holzer

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

One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone. — Jenny Holzer

Everyone's work is equally important. — Jenny Holzer

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. — Jenny Holzer

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

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

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating. — Jenny Holzer

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

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

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular. — Jenny Holzer

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting. — Jenny Holzer

Any surplus is immoral. — Jenny Holzer

The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down. — Jenny Holzer

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

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

Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force — Jenny Holzer

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later. — Jenny Holzer

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations — Jenny Holzer

A sense of duty imprisons you. — Jenny Holzer

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly. — Jenny Holzer

There's a fine line between information and propaganda. — Jenny Holzer

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime. — Jenny Holzer

Life Lessons by Jenny Holzer

1. Jenny Holzer's art encourages us to think deeply about the world around us and to question the status quo.
2. Through her work, she encourages us to be brave and outspoken in our beliefs, and to stand up for what we believe in.
3. Her art also reminds us that our words and actions have the power to create real and lasting change.