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

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

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In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.

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All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

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