Sweet Nothings

Models wait
for artists to give them meaning.
Girls (use to) wait
for boys.
Patients wait
for doctors…

Art waits for no one.
Art cares for no one.
Art doesn’t speak unless
it’s spoken to.
Art is only metaphorically
a language, not literally.
Art does not follow the rules
of language.
The arbitrary and the particular
resist generalizations
necessary

for logical communication.

Art loves her enemies
more than her protectors.
Art loves to know. Everything.
Art has never been innocent.
Art has always been mediated.
Life has always been complicated.
All art eventually becomes Art,
and solves nothing.

Marlene Dumas