Jim Dine Quotes about Art

Jim Dine is a famous Canadian American painter, printmaker and draftsman associated with the Neo-Dada and Pop art movements. He is best known for his skill as a draftsman and for repeating motives like the love heart, bathrobes, tools, Pinocchio, and everyday objects. Famous Jim Dine artworks include “Tool Box”, “Four Hearts”, “Walking Dream with a Four Foot Clamp”, “Nutcracker”, “Picabia”, “The Robe Following Her”, “Five Feet of Colorful Tools” and “Two Thieves, One Liar”.

Mini biography: Born Jim Dine on the 16th of June, 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America. His mother was Eunice Cohen and his father was Stanley Dine. Dine married Nancy in 1957 and they had three children together. They divorced in 2006. He married his second wife Diana Michener in 2005.

List of Famous Jim Dine Art Quotes

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

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 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

I never stop looking. I never stop examining. I never stop inventing from what I see. 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

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

I am the most willing model I have. I don’t like to waste the resource. 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

It’s how I create. I mean, it’s what I do. I improvise. It’s not like there’s a set formula. I try things and, if they work, fine, and if they don’t, then I go on to something else. I guess that’s improvisation. 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

Jim Dine Self-Portrait Etching

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