Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.
Glenn Ligon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Glenn Ligon
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: January 1
Conceptual Artist
Drawer
Filmmaker
Installation Artist
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Video Artist
Visual Artist
The Bronx
New York City
Questions
Produce
Answers
Jobs
Art
Good
More quotes by Glenn Ligon
There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.
Glenn Ligon
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.
Glenn Ligon
I love Thelonious Monk's song Just a Gigolo. It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized, because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an amazing thing out of it.
Glenn Ligon
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
Glenn Ligon
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.
Glenn Ligon
Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.
Glenn Ligon
I said to myself, If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one.
Glenn Ligon
Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them but I don't think that's crucial.
Glenn Ligon