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

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

- Marlene Dumas

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

- 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

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

- 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

I think I am probably a lot like my father.

- Marlene Dumas