Pretty things Quote by Marlene Dumas Download Open image “I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.” — Marlene Dumas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretty things Thinking
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
I'm not that particularly talented in terms of making anything or - I'm not technically efficient. I certainly don't know how to draw very… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making what's easy. I'm interested in making what's beautiful. — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“useful, or believe to be beautiful." Thus said the godfather of the Arts & Crafts movement, William Morris. Anyone who has ever spent time… — Dan Saffer Copy Share Image
Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy,… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do. — Stanley Donen 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 all about. — Marlene Dumas 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. They don't… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed. — Marlene Dumas 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 figurative artists… — Marlene Dumas 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 then eventually… — Marlene Dumas 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 and bad… — Marlene Dumas 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. Painting is… — Marlene Dumas 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 could mean… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life. — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
“Billy stayed in the wagon when it reached the slaughterhouse, sunning himself. The others went looking for souvenirs. Later on in life, the Tralfamadorians… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Because baby, I'm wild pussy and wild pussy can't be bought. Wild pussy doesn't like having pretty things thrown at it and being expected… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
If you're pop and you don't talk about all the pretty things in life and having sex, then you're not really pop. — Cristian Machado Copy Share Image
“It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I don't think it's fair for some girls to have… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“That's what they all say. Everyone says they want to know you, but they don't. They want to know the nice things, the pretty… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Being afraid is okay. But if you don't work through that fear, you might miss out on some pretty things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn… — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
“If you see those pretty things that nature likes to show Remember all those seals that sing And leave them there to grow.” — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image