I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. - Jenny Holzer

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

Jenny Holzer

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

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