Marlene Dumas

Fame and Fortune

You can’t get away
from the people you don’t like
because they pay for you.


Fame and Fortune. Originally published in Marlene Dumas, Phaidon, London, 1999, p.138; and included in Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts, second edition (revised and expanded) Koenig Books London, 2014.