Marlene Dumas Quotes
- My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
- What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist…
- No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and…
- 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 a…
- When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and…
- 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.
- There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.
- I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
- I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
- I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
- I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
- I think I am probably a lot like my father.
- I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
- There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
- The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it…
- 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…
- I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt…
- 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 pretend…