I Heard You While You Weren't Talking

Jenny Holzer - The Living Series: It Takes a While, 1980-82


'When ideas fail, words come in very handy.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Everybody Knows The Square Of Zero

Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) - The Survival Series: The Conversation Always Turns To Living Long Enough To Have Fun, 1983-5


'I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.'

Winnie the Pooh

Take Me To My Reader

Jenny Holzer (b. 1950) - Protect Me From What I Want, 2002

"We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us."

François Rabelais (1483-1553)

"The desire to write grows with writing."

Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)

"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."

William Blake (1757-1827)

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"If you desire many things, many things will seem but few."

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)