"I don't ever work in a way where……" — Julie Mehretu
"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 see it as very informed by that."
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12 Quotes by Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu has 12 quotes on this site.
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The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you…
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The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to…
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The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way…
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I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read…
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Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
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I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
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I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
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That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing…
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When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you…
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You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who…
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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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More Event Quotes
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one of 1,358 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
— Ethel Barrymore
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as…
— John Berger
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So…
— Bill Bowerman
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
— Charlotte Bronte
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own…
— Abdallah II
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