Julie Mehretu Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Rickie Lee Jones

#3. 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

#4. Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Julie Mehretu

#5. My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth .

Anthony De Mello

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need.

Lee Child

#9. Do not allow yourself to be obsessed on failures

Sunday Adelaja

#10. 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

#11. I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes ... I believe in something more.

Shiloh Walker

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

Julie Mehretu

#13. The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.

Pat Buchanan

#14. The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we eventually get sicker.

Jon Stewart

#15. He needed a light. And he made it. Love was his shout into the wind. Same

Pierce Brown

#16. 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

#17. I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

Julie Mehretu