"I always wanted to be an artist, but……" — Julie Mehretu

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know… - Julie Mehretu

"I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it."

— Julie Mehretu

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12 Quotes by Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you…
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to…
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way…
I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read…
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing…
When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you…
You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who…
I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring…
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen…

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I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. — Kevin Bacon
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for… — Bryan Adams
I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was… — Chester Bennington
I always wanted to be a hairdresser. — David Beckham
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me… — Mary J. Blige
I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. — Bjork
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. — Orlando Bloom
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. — Christina Aguilera
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of… — Bill Bryson
I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do. — Sandra Bullock
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was… — Alan Alda
I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike. — Nick Cave

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