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“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,” quote by Jim Dine — Download Open 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,”

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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.

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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…

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

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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…

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

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

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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…

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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…

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

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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…

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Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what else is…

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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…

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