Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York. Read full biography of Jenny Holzer →
I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.
I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.
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... →
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
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.
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... →
I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.
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... →
The most profound things are inexpressible.
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.