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Jenny Holzer Biography

Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces.

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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.

Amount, Gone, Luxurious, Periods, Sometimes, Wrong

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.

Attention, Hope, Lovely, Result, Things, Yield

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.

Writing, Numbers, People, Socially, Dawned

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

Alienation, Eccentrics, Outsiders, Produce, Revolutionaries, Revolutionary

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

Going With The Flow, Flow, Soothing, Risky

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

Know Yourself, Knowing, Lets, Understand

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!

Joke, People, Piece, Pieces, Probably, Thinking

The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.

Disappointment, Down, Greatest, Let

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

Be Proud, Killing, Proud, Unavoidable

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

Artist, Ideas, People

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.

Couple, Important, Keep, Meant, Simple

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

Cruelty, Kindness, Possible, Savor

Raise boys and girls the same way.

Boys, Girl, Raise, Same, Way

When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.

Pain, Interesting, Liking, Start, Things

Romantic love was invented to manipulate women

Love, Manipulate, Romantic, Romantic Love, Women

All things are delicately interconnected.

All Things, Art, Delicately, Interconnected, Things

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

Succeed, Laundry, Clean, Away, Loathe

Being happy is more important than anything else.

Happy, Important

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.

Borrowing, Associates, I Can, Work, Necessary, Traveling

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

Save, Sex, Urge, Urges

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