Jenny Holzer
Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.Collection: Law
Any surplus is immoral.Collection: Surplus
Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.Collection: Kindness
Raise boys and girls the same way.Collection: Girl
Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.Collection: Lovely
Usually going places makes me feel optimistic. And I'm a hillbilly, so heading to the countryside made sense a number of ways.Collection: Optimistic
A positive attitude means all the difference in the world.Collection: Art
It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.Collection: Want
Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.Collection: Heart
Deviants are sacrificed to increase group solidarityCollection: Groups
Anger or hate can be a useful motivating forceCollection: Hate
Going with the flow is soothing but risky.Collection: Going With The Flow
Exceptional people deserve special concessions.Collection: Art
There's a fine line between information and propaganda.Collection: Lines
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.Collection: Couple
Knowing yourself lets you understand others.Collection: Knowing
Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.Collection: Change
It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasonsCollection: Stupid
Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud ofCollection: Proud
Stupid people shouldn’t breed.Collection: Stupid
The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.Collection: Epiphany
A little knowledge can go a long way.Collection: Art
If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough.Collection: Artist
Being happy is more important than anything else.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Art
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.Collection: Want
A name means a lot just by itself.Collection: Art
A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.Collection: Genius
I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.Collection: Crazy
When you start liking pain things start to get interesting.Collection: Pain
The greatest disappointment is when you let yourself down.Collection: Disappointment
Disgust is the appropriate response to most situationsCollection: Situation
Drama often obscures the real issuesCollection: Real
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.Collection: Desire
I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.Collection: Artist
Expressing anger is necessary.Collection: Expressing Anger
Everyone's work is equally important.Collection: Art
What urge will save us now that sex won't?Collection: Sex
At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mindCollection: Mind
A lot of professionals are crackpots.Collection: Crackpots
Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go.Collection: Mind
SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR PERSONALITY FAST.Collection: Personality
Remember you always have freedom of choice.Collection: Art
Boredom makes you do crazy thingsCollection: Crazy
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.Collection: Writing
It’s fun wandering around other people’s minds.Collection: Fun