American - Artist | July 29, 1950 -
The most profound things are inexpressible.
Jenny Holzer
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Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
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I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
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I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
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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.
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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.
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I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
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On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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