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

I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the …

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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…

- Marlene Dumas

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

- Marlene Dumas

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

- Marlene Dumas