Glenn Ligon Quotes

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.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

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.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."