"I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of……" — Julie Mehretu
"I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction."
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Julie Mehretu
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12 Quotes by Julie Mehretu
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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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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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I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring…
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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 Abstraction Quotes
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one of 249 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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