Quotes About Jim Dine

#1. 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

#2. Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. 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

#4. It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

Mae West

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

Noam Chomsky

#8. The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.

Xenophanes

#9. Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

George Herbert

#10. I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

Ned Beauman

#11. I blink January's lashes
and gush down December's cheeks

Sanober Khan

#12. Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

John Lyly

#13. Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)

Dorothy L. Sayers

#14. For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Jim Dine

#15. Dan Fouts fumbled the game away for Chargers.

Bob Griese

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

Jim Dine

#17. My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

Jay-Z

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.

Treat Williams

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

Jim Dine

#25. It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Mark Cuban

#26. What is better than to love and live with the loved?
But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

George Eliot

#27. 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