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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.

Marlene Dumas

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Marlene Dumas
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 1
Artist
Collagist
Draftsperson
Drawer
Lithographer
Painter
Visual Artist
Cape Town
South Africa
M. Dumas
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Pleasure
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Without
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I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
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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.
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I'm always so sick of myself after a show.
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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.
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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. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.
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