Top 35 Quotes by Rashid Johnson

About Rashid Johnson

These are some quotes by American author Rashid Johnson Photographer, who was born in 1977.

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

You can really learn a lot from young people and the way they view the world.

Rashid Johnson

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.

Rashid Johnson

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Rashid Johnson

I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.

I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.

Rashid Johnson

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.

Rashid Johnson

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.

The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.

Rashid Johnson

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.

Rashid Johnson

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.

Rashid Johnson

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

For me, all the materials and objects I employ come from a specific space that's very personal.

Rashid Johnson

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

Rashid Johnson

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