Fails Quote by Glenn Ligon Download Open image “I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.” — Glenn Ligon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fails Failure Interested Language Opaque
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses -… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in a moment… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
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… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I switched up so that I could work 12-hour shifts at the firm on the weekends so I could have days free to paint.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why… — John King Copy Share Image
“The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There was this real fear in doing 'Square Pegs' after getting such a fast ride to glory on 'Saturday Night Live'. I was afraid… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
