"My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead." The pottery classes were meant to be a part of my overall uplift. I knew what it meant to be sent to art classes, but I still didn't know anything about being an artist."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Glenn Ligon

#Uplifting Quotes #Mother Quotes #Art Quotes

“Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.”
“We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
“The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.”
“They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures”
“The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster
“Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.”
“A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.”
“People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.”

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