Art Quote by 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.” quote by Marlene Dumas — Download Open 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

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I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.

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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…

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My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.

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I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

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I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

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What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists…

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The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually…

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When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad…

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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…

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There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

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No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

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There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

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