Mehretu Julie Quotes & Sayings

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. — Hans Asperger

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

In San Francisco, the majority of the restaurants are ingredient-driven. In New York, that is true as well, but there's also a greater focus on technique. — Daniel Humm

The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy. — Michelangelo

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

I love French auto design of the early '50s, '60s, early '70s of Citorens, Renaults, and Peugeots. They're so unique. — John Lasseter

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

Listen into the silences where the best words begin. — Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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

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

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

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. — Julie Mehretu

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

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit. — Julie Mehretu

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

God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is. — Ann Voskamp

The bronze rider of Mnementh, Lord F'lar, will require quarters for himself. I, F'nor, brown rider, prefer to be lodged with the wingmen. We are, in number, twelve. F'lar liked that touch of F'nor's, totting up the wing strength, as if Fax were incapable of counting. — Anne McCaffrey

I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills. — Fanny Brice

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

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