The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money. — 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
