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. . . we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

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Marlene Dumas

I am against: general ideas
the nude
the appropriation of images
the mystification of the untitled
the glorification of artistic doubt
the fuzzy edges of sensitivity
old sins
and useless guilt.

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

Art, Bright, Freeze, Light, Like, Time

There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

Beauty, Ifs, Life, Show, Shows, Terribleness

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.

Exist, Mean, Pain, Painting, Pleasure, Tension

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.

Art, Inspiring, Life, Painting, Reality, Visible

My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions. . with intrusions of irrelevant information.

Confusion, Erotic, Information, Intrusions, Mental
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