Jim Dine Quotes

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Jim Dine is an American artist born on June 16, 1935. Known for his unique pop art style and sculptures, Dine's works often take everyday objects as inspiration, such as tools and bottles, and express personal emotions and social meanings through repetition and symbolic techniques.

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Famous Jim Dine Quotes

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

Done Able Suffering Speak My Own Blood Contrary

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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.”

Thinking Way Feels I Can Use Feelings Artist Objects Concerned Pops Satisfied Meals Interiors Vocabulary Leaving Me Exterior Pop Art Good Meals

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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.”

Thinking Humans Ends Can Do Conditions Ultimate Miracle Noble Celebrate Things To Do Fascinating Fragile Human Condition Organisms Autobiography Affirmation Transient

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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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“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.”

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Book:Jim Dine: drawings

Source: Jim Dine: drawings

“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.”

Important Romance Objects Mark Drawing

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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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“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'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.”

Ifs Heart Easy Pieces My Heart Critics Packing Another Time Homicide Dine In

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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.”

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Book: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

Source: 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

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

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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.”

Want Artist Born Grateful Holiday So Grateful

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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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About the Author

Born: June 16, 1935
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 13

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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, 1979Related source material

Jim Dine: drawingsRelated source material

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