Abstract Quote by Marlene Dumas

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

— 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.

— Marlene Dumas

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

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

— Marlene Dumas

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

— Marlene Dumas

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

— Marlene Dumas

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

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

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

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

— Marlene Dumas

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

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

— Marlene Dumas