Jim Dine Quotes - click name for biography
· I appropriate things and make them mine. I’m a different person when I come back to them 20 years later, but they’re still mine.
- Jim Dine
· 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
· For me, drawing is everything.. because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It’s the way I begin everything.
- Jim Dine
· 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
· I’ve never been a reporter. And if I have a romance with the objects that I’m drawing, it’s more important that I have a romance with the mark that I am making.
- Jim Dine
· This idea of a talking stick (Pinocchio) becoming a boy, it’s like a metaphor for art, and it’s the ultimate alchemical transformation.
- Jim Dine
· 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
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