Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
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, — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
