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