"There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working."

-- Marlene Dumas

“A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.”
“What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.”

Source : "Jay Electronica" by Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.
“Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.”
“It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.”
“I've always loved to sing.”
“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
“I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.”
“If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.”

Source : "Precarious Beauty" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

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