Marlene Dumas

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

"My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information)"

"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"

"Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of a light. That's why dead painters shine so bright"

"Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last.""

"” 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.”"

"Her work is informed by her childhood experience growing up in Apartheid and addresses social struggles of oppressed peoples around the world. Working with gestural brush strokes and thin washes of paint, her works have a distinctly transparent appearance that emphasizes their materiality and intimate subject matter."