Jenny Holzer Quotes

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

The inarticulate speak longest.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

I say out loud what everyone thinks deep inside.

As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.

My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface.

You can't talk about what you haven't felt.