"The erasure itself became the action. It seemed……" — Julie Mehretu
"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 environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting."
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12 Quotes by Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu has 12 quotes on this site.
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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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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 Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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