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Marlene Dumas Quotes: There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.
         

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.


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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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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 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.



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.

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.



I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.



There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.



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

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



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

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



I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.





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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.



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not all thoughts have to become words!



Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.



A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were



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What is without periods of rest will not endure.



It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'



To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.



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If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.




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