Quotes from Jenny Holzer

Raise boys and girls the same way.

IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS FROM SEX AND SURGERY.

YOU SHOULD LIMIT THE NUMBER OF TIMES YOU ACT AGAINST YOUR NATURE, LIKE SLEEPING WITH PEOPLE YOU HATE. IT¹S INTERESTING TO TEST YOUR CAPABILITIES FOR A WHILE BUT TOO MUCH WILL CAUSE DAMAGE.

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.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

With all the holes in you already there's no reason to define the outside environment as alien.

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

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

I really like doing the laundry, because I succeed at it. But I loathe putting it away. It is already clean.

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

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.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Remember you always have freedom of choice.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.