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Marlene Dumas
14 quotes
“I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed”
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“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information)”
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“I don't go to psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They all supposed to help you, but i like to stay in bed where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini”
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“Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of a light. That's why dead painters shine so bright”
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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.”
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Recorded in: Marlene Dumas Biography, Life & Quotes". The Art Story. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
“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.”
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Recorded in: Kazakina, Katya (8 December 2023). "Zwirner Reports a $9 Million Marlene Dumas Sale. That Has People Talking For Two Reasons". Artnet News. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
“I didn’t even want the trouble of thinking about whether I should do something there or not”
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“But then I started to look into the stories and tragedies of these people’s lives, and what I found was profoundly upsetting”
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“If you don’t like gay people, I want the drawings to make you think, ‘What a stupid, horrible person I am.’”
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“I don’t want people in my studio “I want to be alone when I paint.”
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“There is an element of play to what I do, “where something suddenly appears from something else.”
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“I don’t have any hobbies, I don’t exercise. I don’t ride a bicycle. I don’t even like brushing my teeth.”
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“I’ve drunk too much for a lot of my life”
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“I do not want to be remembered for this, “I would like to be remembered for having done at least one good painting in my life.”
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