Jim Dine quotes
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“Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.”
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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,”
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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 packing a piece.”
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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 for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.”
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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 matter is there.”
-- Jim DineSource : Jim Dine, Constance Glenn, California State University, Long Beach. Art Museum and Galleries (1979). “Jim Dine figure drawings, 1975-1979: published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, October 15-November 11, 1979”, HarperCollins Publishers
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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 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.”
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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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“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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“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.”
-- Jim DineSource : Constance W. Glenn, Jim Dine, Christopher Sweet (1985). “Jim Dine: drawings”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
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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.”
-- Jim Dine
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