"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."

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Source : "Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos - from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park". Interview with Jason Farago, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

Julie Mehretu

#Knowing Quotes #Space Quotes #Not Knowing Quotes

“When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.”
“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”
“If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.”
“The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.”
“Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, letâ€™s give it another go.”
“The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.”
“It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.”
“The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.”

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