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Top 15 Marlene Dumas Quotes (2025 Update)

Marlene Dumas Quote: “I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.”

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

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “There is no beauty, if it doesn’t show some of the terribleness of life.”

2. “There is no beauty, if it doesn’t show some of the terribleness of life.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Marlene Dumas Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Marlene Dumas Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Marlene Dumas Quote: “I think I am probably a lot like my father.”

7. “I think I am probably a lot like my father.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “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 that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.”

8. “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 that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Marlene Dumas Quote: “I’m always so sick of myself after a show.”

10. “I’m always so sick of myself after a show.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “There are these painterly things that happen while I’m working.”

11. “There are these painterly things that happen while I’m working.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “I do think that I’m not good at making pretty things. It doesn’t come so naturally for me.”

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

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.”

13. “The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.”

14. “I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.”

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.”

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

— Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas Quote: “The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, ‘Oh, that’s a bad drawing!’ Well, I didn’t say it was so wonderful.”

16. “The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, ‘Oh, that’s a bad drawing!’ Well, I didn’t say it was so wonderful.”

— Marlene Dumas

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