All Julie Mehretu Quotes
- The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political… Action
- The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and make sense of… Absurd
- The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making… Approach
- I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you… Feel
- Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit. Always Comes
- I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it. Always Wanted
- I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. Abstraction
- That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is. Imagining
- When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you… All
- You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time. Collective
- I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I… Event
- People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then… Certain