Top 32 Quotes by Jenny Holzer

On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist.

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.

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.

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

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.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.