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