Art Quote by Marlene Dumas Download Open image “I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.” — Marlene Dumas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Holland Moved Wanted
I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had very little chance of seeing any. — Emma Albani Copy Share
I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film. — Jack O'Connell Copy Share Image
I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
I know that people think of my work from the '70s as American, but I've been going to other places for a long time. — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create. — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way. — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me. — Marlene Dumas 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
