Mehretu 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. I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Janis Ian

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

Julie Mehretu

#4. When you're in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

Tracey Wilen

#5. In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

C. G. Jung

#6. 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

#7. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Tim Fargo

#8. Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

George Friedman

#9. Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Julie Mehretu

#11. The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.

Damon Galgut

#12. 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

#13. I raised a brow. "So you do listen."
"When it involves your lips, you have my full attention.

Priscilla West

#14. I don't believe in luck ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Janet Jackson

#15. 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

#16. It's not "Why have hamburger when you can have steak?" It's "I'll have the filet mignon, rib eye, t-bone, and fuck it, throw a couple of burgers in there too, I guess." Alphas need variety.

A.D. Aliwat

#17. Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

Ramakrishna

#18. I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Russell Wilson

#19. She left my world spinning
like windmills
on the plains of la Mancha.

Stephen Brooke

#20. 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

#21. No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Ashly Lorenzana

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

Julie Mehretu

#23. 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

#24. Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

Rebecca MacKinnon