Great idea Quote by Glenn Ligon Download Open image “It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.” — Glenn Ligon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great idea Rhythm
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page. Some people write for the page, and that's a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had… — David Finch Copy Share Image
The way I work uses a very on-the-spot flow, and I write the lyrics and the music when I feel them coming. — J-Hope Copy Share Image
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is… — Herbert 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, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share
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 when a lot of younger artists are looking at work from the '60s and '70s - they are looking at the pieces by Marina Abramovic or Vito Acconci. These pieces have a time element. They were… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share
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 in a lot of paintings. The essay is from the mid-'50s, when he's moved to Switzerland to work on a novel, and he finds himself the only black man living in a tiny Swiss village. He… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share
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. But it was almost like I had a secret life, because I wasn't showing any of my work. It was just in my house. In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great idea that it was just like the best idea I'd ever heard in my life. It was like a great idea. I mean, it was - Not only was it vengeance, it was art, and it… — Eve Babitz Copy Share
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
I saw this DJ playing music and saying things to the kids. They would answer him back, and I say, 'That's a great idea.' — Sylvia Robinson Copy Share Image
You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who is sponsoring… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him… — Nate Robinson Copy Share Image
I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Most people who have kids are, "Hey, I want another me. I like me. I'm pretty cool, and I've got really great ideas, and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
