Artist, Marlene Dumas: As a child I liked images. And the images that were most valuable to me were pictures from magazines. And so I always used to love to cut out pictures, especially of film stars.
And when I was at art school in South Africa at the Film Society we saw films of Godard, Bergman, Fassbinder. And I was fascinated by how they used a narrative and also the medium of film itself.
I wanted painting to relate more to the life around me, but not only in a sort of realistic, figurative way; I wanted it to be more like these films that I admired.
A lot of the photographs that I collected were, indeed, about the human face, but also about poses. You know, the way people use their bodies to attract another body.
My collection is so unsystematic and so broad. But it's all about people things.