Able Quote by Jim Dine

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.…

— Kathe Kollwitz

You can work with me—or you can wade through the blood and bodies after I'm done.

— Jennifer Estep

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour…

— Yayoi Kusama

I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged…

— Zadie Smith

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

— Max Beerbohm

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

— Philip Pearlstein

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

— Sissy Spacek

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die.

— Jerry Smith

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson