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

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

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

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

- Jim Dine

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 structurall…

- Jim Dine

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

- Jim Dine

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 …

- 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…

- Jim Dine

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 gr…

- Jim Dine