Jim Dine

“Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades. It's basically a U-turn back to a representational visual world.”

“The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of the painting.”

“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.”

“I work every day. I've worked every day for 50 years.”

“A tool is an extension of the hand, and the hand is an extension of the brain, and the brain is an extension of the heart.”

“The work is not about my life, it is my life.”

“I've never been a Surrealist. I've never been a Pop artist. I've never been a photorealist. I'm just a painter.”

“The heart is a landscape.”

“I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little you can do about a lot of things.”

“For me, drawing is the most immediate way of expressing myself, the most personal.”

“I'm not a Pop artist.”

“When you're painting, you're not thinking.”

“Printmaking is a collaboration, but it's a collaboration with yourself.”

“I am interested in making a beautiful thing.”

“My life is in my work.”