Jim Dine In Quotations

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally,

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.