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> [I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/i-moved-to-holland-because-i-wanted-to-see-american-art/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/marlene-dumas-28297_art_i-moved-to-holland-because-i-wanted-to-s_2805458.png)

## More by Marlene Dumas

> [I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/i-do-think-that-i-m-not-good-at-making-pretty-things-it-doesn-t-come/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/at-the-moment-my-art-is-situated-between-the-pornographic-tendency-to/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/drawings-are-only-a-few-lines-on-paper-therefore-it-s-easy-to-carry/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/my-best-works-are-erotic-displays-of-mental-confusions-with/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [I'm always so sick of myself after a show.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/i-m-always-so-sick-of-myself-after-a-show/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/i-have-always-been-interested-in-how-you-can-depict-suffering-without/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/what-a-funny-thing-painting-is-the-abstract-painters-always-insist-on/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/the-best-works-do-not-necessarily-get-to-auction-i-like-to-draw-so/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/when-black-and-white-are-colors-and-not-races-people-will-still-fall/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/painting-doesn-t-freeze-time-it-circulates-and-recycles-time-like-a/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/there-are-these-painterly-things-that-happen-while-i-m-working/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/no-painting-can-exist-without-the-tension-of-what-it-figures-and-what/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/there-is-no-beauty-if-it-doesn-t-show-some-of-the-terribleness-of-life/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/i-am-against-general-ideas-the-nude-the-appropriation-of-images-the/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

> [I think I am probably a lot like my father.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlene-dumas/i-think-i-am-probably-a-lot-like-my-father/)

[Marlene Dumas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlene-dumas/)

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