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.”

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

“The heart is a landscape.”

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

“My life is in my work.”

“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 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.”

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

“I am interested in making a beautiful thing.”

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

“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.”

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