Quotes by Jim Dine - Page 1

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
Jim Dine / Artist
Art
Dine In
Passion
Western
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I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
Jim Dine / Artist
Funny
Able
Dine In
Intensity
Obsession
Thinking
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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 / Artist
Blood
Done
Suffering
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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.
Jim Dine / Artist
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Drawing
Way
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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.
Jim Dine / Artist
Drawing
Important
Romance
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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 Dine / Artist
Dine In
Emotion
Have Faith
Matter
Subject Matter
Charged
Figure
How Much
Terms
Subject
The Only Thing
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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.
Jim Dine / Artist
Relationship
Another Time
Critics
Dine In
Heart
Homicide
Packing
Pieces
Hold
Piece
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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.
Jim Dine / Artist
Dine In
Feelings
Mean
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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 Dine / Artist
Art
Attitude
Dine In
Drawing
Talking
Clearly
Towards
Image
Making
Necessarily
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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.
Jim Dine / Artist
Artist
Grateful
Holiday
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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.
Jim Dine / Artist
Dine In
Done
Littles
Said
Living
Accept
Working
Point
Terms
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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 there? To me, it's the ultimate affirmation of life, and a miracle of this transient, extremely fragile organism. To celebrate that, I think, is a noble thing to do.
Jim Dine / Artist
Miracle
Noble
Thinking
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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 see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.
Jim Dine / Artist
Artist
Thinking
Vocabulary
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