Art Quote by Julie Mehretu Download Open image “I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.” — Julie Mehretu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Didn Life Make Life Wanted Wanted Artist
This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I think I always wanted to be an artist. I sort of just followed my passion right out of high school, and everything kind… — Lisa Frank Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write. — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an… — Francesca DiMattio Copy Share Image
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself. — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
I'm an artist because of how I do things, not because I'm trying to be one. — The-Dream Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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. — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
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… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image