Quotes by Julie Mehretu - Page 1

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Come Up
Conversation
Detroit
Race
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I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Abstraction
Elements
Element
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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.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Artist
Know How
Wanted
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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 what that is.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Space
Knowing
Not Knowing
Between
Interested
Possible
Imagining
Moment
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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 can't do that when you have two children!
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Mom
Morning
Children
Paint
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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 the mark is because you also feel the mark.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Stories
Thinking
Trying
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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 you are because of time.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Experience
Collectives
Persons
Who You Are
Time Your Person
Time Experience Your
Collective
Experiences
Specific
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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 at the same time I see it as very informed by that.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Events
Illustration
Way
Time Work Way
Event
Work Time Way
Informed
Same Time
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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.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Historical
Hopeful
Political
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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 try and make sense of who I was in my time and space and political environment. But there’s only so much truth to a theoretical understanding of something.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Space
Political
Understanding
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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 the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Certain
Consumed
Film
Gallery
Made
Minutes
Painting
People
Thinking
Two
Whole
After
Back
Seen
Fast
Work Time Look
Walk
Require
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The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.
Julie Mehretu / Artist
Illumination
Thinking
Trying
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