I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me. — Marlene Dumas Pretty things 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… — Marlene Dumas Art 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.… — Marlene Dumas Bags Copy Share Image
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information. — Marlene Dumas Best work Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. — Marlene Dumas Heavy 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… — Marlene Dumas Abstract 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… — Marlene Dumas Auctions 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… — Marlene Dumas Art 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.… — Marlene Dumas Art 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… — Marlene Dumas Figures Copy Share Image
There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life. — Marlene Dumas Beauty Copy Share Image
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification… — Marlene Dumas Appropriation Copy Share Image
I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from… — Marlene Dumas Accountant Copy Share Image
The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest… — Marlene Dumas Class Copy Share Image
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to… — Marlene Dumas Bicycle Copy Share Image
