Terribleness Quotes by Marlene Dumas

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• 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…
• No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it…
• Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last.…
• When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad…
• At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's…
• 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…
• I think I am probably a lot like my father.

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