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.
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 tha… - 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 and need art tha…
- Marlene Dumas
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me. - Marlene Dumas
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
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 w… - 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 and the pain of w…
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information. - Marlene Dumas
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the … - Marlene Dumas
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the …
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
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.
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 sl… - 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 a very sl…
I'm always so sick of myself after a show. - Marlene Dumas
I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
I think I am probably a lot like my father. - Marlene Dumas
I think I am probably a lot like my father.
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