There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
