Mehretu Julie Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

Leonard Ravenhill

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

Julie Mehretu

#4. Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

Douglas Coupland

#5. 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

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

Julie Mehretu

#7. The "supreme good" and its attainment
that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Josef Pieper

#8. I think that having love in your life does open up doors and other possibilities.

Dana Perino

#9. 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

#10. Home, she thought, looking at him.

Lauren Groff

#11. 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

#12. There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

Marya Hornbacher

#13. 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

#14. Lincoln believed in the American people.

Steven Spielberg

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

Julie Mehretu

#16. 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