Top 32 Quotes by Jenny Holzer

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.

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.

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

Protect me from what I want.

Company makes my day.

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.

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

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.

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

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