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“At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Mindless
“You are a victim of the rules you live by.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Victim #Live By
“All things are delicately interconnected.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Art
“It's better to be a good person than a famous person.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Art #Good Person #Being A Good Person
“Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Sake #Slipping #Madness
“Lack of charisma can be fatal.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Charisma
“Being happy is more important than anything else.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Important
“Anger or hate can be a useful motivating force”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Hate #Force
“Going with the flow is soothing but risky.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Going With The Flow #Flow #Soothing
“I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Rotten #Abstract #Painter
“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

#Artist #Worry #Stuff
“It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Stupid #Reason #Embarrassing
“On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Artist #Worst #Worst Day
“I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Succeed #Laundry
“There's a fine line between information and propaganda.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Lines #Information #Propaganda
“Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Change #Culture #Use
“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Outsiders #Revolutionary #Produce
“Expressing anger is necessary.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Expressing Anger
“Any surplus is immoral.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Surplus #Immoral
“Ensure that your life stays in flux.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Art #Flux
“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

#Epiphany #Posters #Streets
“A name means a lot just by itself.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Art #Mean #Names
“Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Situation #Disgusting #Response
“Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Proud #Killing #Be Proud
“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

#Real #Thinking #Fake
“Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarity”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Groups #Increase #Solidarity
“Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Heart #Hands #Breasts
“Everyone's work is equally important.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Art #Important
“Exceptional people deserve special concessions.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Art #People #Special
“It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”
-- Jenny Holzer

#Self #Way #Interest

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