"At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about."

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Source : Marlene Dumas, Emma Bedford, Standard Bank Centre Art Gallery (2007). “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations”, p.42, Jacana Media

Marlene Dumas

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“We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.”
“Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this â€” and out of nothing â€” can still count the hairs of my head.”
“I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar.”
“That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.”
“It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.”
“One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.”
“The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.”

Source : Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.
“He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.”

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