Jim Dine Quotes
For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.
