Jenny Holzer Quotes

I like being forced to think about things in a different way.

My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

I refused to accept anything, doubted everything. So, doubting everything, I had to find something that had not existed before, something I had not thought of before. Any idea that came to me, the thing would be to turn it around and try to see it with another set of senses.

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

Schiaparelli symbolizes the capacity to think and create in a different way.

There's always a wild card or two when you're casting. I'm usually the wild card. In a room of Caucasian guys, a director might be like, 'OK, let's see, like, two guys who aren't. And maybe they'll be the wild card choice.'

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes.

My goal is to change the art industry.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace - never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.