Top 34 Marlene Dumas Quotes
#1. Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.
Jerry Saltz
#2. Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected.
Richard Carlson
#3. He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
Catfish Hunter
#4. Thanks to President Barack Obama, under the Affordable Care Act, millions more people will be eligible for health insurance, including many people with HIV.
Alex Newell
#5. 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
#6. My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.
Marlene Dumas
#8. You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law.
Chris Rock
#9. 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
#11. The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea.
Victoria Schwab
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.
Theodore Roethke
#16. I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.
Marlene Dumas
#17. Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#18. 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
#19. The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.
Aldous Huxley
#20. I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
Marlene Dumas
#21. 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
#22. Today, I am doing well in every aspect of my life. But, this is only because I've realized that I can do it.
Mohith Agadi
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.
Marlene Dumas
#27. I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
Marlene Dumas
#28. Consciousness without world is impossible, just as there is no sight without the light to see by. Is that your objection,
E.L. Doctorow
#29. There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
Marlene Dumas
#30. Why did New York feel more like home to me than home did? I'd heard of love at first sight, but I didn't know it could happen with a whole city.
Lisa Mangum
#31. 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
#32. I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
Marlene Dumas
#33. Today it is even more important to dominate the ... highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system.
Adolf Galland
#34. Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.
Brene Brown
