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

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

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

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