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.
Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial. - Glenn Ligon
Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.
- Glenn Ligon
My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions. - Glenn Ligon
My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.
One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because… - Glenn Ligon
One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because…
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-gi… - 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-gi…
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment when a lot of… - Glenn Ligon
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment when a lot of…
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used in a lot of paintings.… - Glenn Ligon
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used in a lot of paintings.…
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at. - Glenn Ligon
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
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,… - 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,…
I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one." - Glenn Ligon
I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."
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