Quotes by Marlene Dumas - Page 1

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Shows
Sick
So Sick
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I think I am probably a lot like my father.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Father
Thinking
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I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Art
Holland
Moved
Wanted
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There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Painterly
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There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Ifs
Shows
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I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Heavy
Suffering
Depict
Heavy-Handed
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I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Pretty Things
Thinking
Good Me Things
Naturally
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My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Confusion
Erotic
Information
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I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Bicycle
Late
Swim
Too Late
Ride
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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 / Artist
Art
Erotic
Moments
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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 and the pain of what it's not.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Mean
Pain
Pleasure
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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 pretend they'll last forever.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Drawing
Forever
Paper
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The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Class
Crowds
Scandal
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I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Doubt
Guilt
Ideas
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I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Chance
Bed
Dentist
Gym
Psychiatrist
Accountant
Run
Stay
Reflect
Supposed
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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 and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Art
Falling In Love
Pain
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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 insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Art
Inspiring
Reality
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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 it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Auctions
Critics
Drawing
Giving
Auction
Draw
Eventually
Necessarily
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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 a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Art
Time
Light
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