Jenny Holzer Quotes

People don't accredit Killer Mike and El-P with having the humanity that we do. They don't understand that the darkness and the anger that we rap about comes from a place of love, care, and concern.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

One of the greatest things about the theatre is how it can completely change the way you see the world around you. 'Dear Evan Hansen' did this for me.

I know people come to my shows expecting me to give voice to some of the frustrations that nice, happy, progressive people like me have with the world.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

I obviously wouldn't say on nationwide TV that I thought America was racist, sexist, homophobic and violent if they asked me why I left. I would just say America wasn't a culture I felt comfortable in. But anybody with a brain would understand what I'm trying to say.

I recognise that, while I was fortunate enough to grow up without any discrimination or stigma attached at all, other people haven't been so lucky.

Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

Film has to reflect the real world.

Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.

A lot of people say my songs are political, but that's not by plan. It's because I never found a place where everything is OK, so I just write about what my reality is, follow my instinct.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

I don't believe watching dreams but like to stick to reality. Reality is all about flood, hunger, illness.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.

I will never shy away from social issues in my books - or in my everyday life.

'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

Poetry is not about personal pain or tragedy. It should resonate the society's grief.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.