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Glenn Ligon

"Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way to tap into content. It's related to the way my text-based work still functions as abstraction for me. If I repeat a sentence down a canvas, the text starts to smudge and disappear. It essentially becomes an abstract piece. The meaning of the text is still there."

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Glenn Ligon

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“No, it's that fun we have. It's real. I'm so thankful they cast good, funny, interesting, warm, kind people in â€œCastleâ€, because we blend very well together. At this point it's like a family. We help each other. I constantly ask them: â€œWhat's funnier: if I do this or I do that?â€ And I don't think we care anymore about looking weak or unprofessional. We all just want the best for each other and for the show.”
“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”
“Managers watch over our numbers, our time and our results. Leaders watch over us.”
“This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.”
“The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.”
“According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.”
“He is an example of a La Masia player. Technically he is unbelievable.”

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