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I don’t want people in my studio “I want to be alone when I paint.

— Marlene Dumas

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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."

” 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.”

There is an element of play to what I do, “where something suddenly appears from something else.”

“If you don’t like gay people, I want the drawings to make you think, ‘What a stupid, horrible person I am.’

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

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