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Jenny Holzer Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“WHEN SOMEONE BEATS YOU WITH A FLASHLIGHT YOU MAKE LIGHT SHINE IN ALL DIRECTIONS”
— Jenny Holzer, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania
Tagged: Contemporary Art, Jenny Holzer
“I was not
born live.
This body grew
but I did not
feel cells split.
How I act
does not matter.
I am waiting for
everyone to die
because that
is the point.”
— Jenny Holzer, Jenny Holzer: Laments
Tagged: Depression, Life Is Pointless, Tired, Cynic
“SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND
IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY.
NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG,
IT¹S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT
FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY
AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.”
— Jenny Holzer, MoMA: Jenny Holzer's Living: 1980-1982
Tagged: Depression, Anxiety, Cynic, I Hate Life
“Ruin your fucking self before they do.”
— Jenny Holzer, Truisms and Inflammatory Essays
Tagged: Identity, Finding Yourself, Growing Pains, Relationships
“PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT”
— Jenny Holzer, Stuart Collection UC San Diego
Tagged: Contemporary Art, Jenny Holzer, Liberal Arts
“What urge will save us now that sex won't?”
— Jenny Holzer, via Tumblr
Tagged: Sex, Poetry, Literature, Life
“Rejoice! Our times are intolerable. Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best. Only dire circumstance can precipitate the overthrow of oppressors. The old & corrupt must be laid to waste before the just can triumph. Contradiction will be heightened. The reckoning will be hastened by the staging of seed disturbances. The apocalypse will blossom.”
— Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays
Tagged: Resistance, Prose, Empowering
“Oh lord when you are alone
and do not want to be, you
lie in bed with your own shoulder wrapped around and
beneath yourself so that
the surges of pain keep
you company. This is hurtful but it is so much better
than no nerves firing at all.
The worst is when there’s no one near to press on you
and make dents in your
skin with their finger nails.
You are left running your hands all over yourself, biting
trying and experimenting to create sensations. The
enormous feeling you make
prove to yourself that
you create great excitement.”
— Jenny Holzer, Truisms and Inflammatory Essays
Tagged: Alone, Loneliness, Depression, Sad, Companionship
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