Author: Glenn Ligon

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There was a time when I was a huge TV addict. I used to race home from school to watch 'Dark Shadows.'

There was a time when I was a huge TV addict. I used to race home from school to watch 'Dark Shadows.'

- Glenn Ligon

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

- Glenn Ligon

Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.

Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.

- Glenn Ligon

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

- Glenn Ligon

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

- Glenn Ligon

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

- Glenn Ligon

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

- Glenn Ligon

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

- Glenn Ligon

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

- Glenn Ligon

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