Marlene Dumas Quotes - click name for biography
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
- 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 pretend they'll last forever. Drawings are streetwise and still to be found in toilets, too.
- Marlene Dumas
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