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.

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 would be light coming from behind that black letter.

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.