I love revisiting art, books, and films. You often grow and interpret things differently or catch some subtlety. Jenny Holzer's truisms are a perfect example of work that reads way differently to me than when first introduced. I'm more of a jaded cynic now than I was in art school.
A LOT OF PROFESSIONALS ARE CRACKPOTS |
ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION CAN BE A FORM OF FREEDOM |
ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE |
ACTION CAUSES MORE TROUBLE THAN THOUGHT |
ALIENATION PRODUCES ECCENTRICS OR REVOLUTIONARIES |
AT TIMES INACTIVITY IS PREFERABLE TO MINDLESS FUNCTIONING |
BOREDOM MAKES YOU DO CRAZY THINGS |
CONFUSING YOURSELF IS A WAY TO STAY HONEST |
DREAMING WHILE AWAKE IS A FRIGHTENING CONTRADICTION |
EXPIRING FOR LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT STUPID |
HUMANISM IS OBSOLETE |
HUMOR IS A RELEASE |
IT IS MAN'S FATE TO OUTSMART HIMSELF |
LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL |
LOVING ANIMALS IS A SUBSTITUTE ACTIVITY |
MUCH WAS DECIDED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN |
MURDER HAS ITS SEXUAL SIDE |
OFTEN YOU SHOULD ACT LIKE YOU ARE SEXLESS |
PEOPLE WHO DON'T WORK WITH THEIR HANDS ARE PARASITES |
ROMANTIC LOVE WAS INVENTED TO MANIPULATE WOMEN |
SLIPPING INTO MADNESS IS GOOD FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARISON |
SLOPPY THINKING GETS WORSE OVER TIME |
TAKING A STRONG STAND PUBLICIZES THE OPPOSITE POSITION |
THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION IS ADOLESCENT FANTASY |
THE MOST PROFOUND THINGS ARE INEXPRESSIBLE |
TIMIDITY IS LAUGHABLE |
WISHING THINGS AWAY IS NOT EFFECTIVE |
3 comments:
UM, WHEN ARE WE GETTING MARRIED!?!??! this list is so good. and so bad. ohmylord. i think i have to print it out. fucking radical!!!
this is one of my fav posts of yours.....<3 u.
"AT TIMES INACTIVITY IS PREFERABLE TO MINDLESS FUNCTIONING" - words to live by during bar studies!
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