"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."

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Source : Constance W. Glenn, Jim Dine, Christopher Sweet (1985). “Jim Dine: drawings”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

Jim Dine

#Attitude Quotes #Talking Quotes #Drawing Quotes

“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”
“The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.”
“Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.”
“I've had failures, don't get me wrong, but it wasn't beneath me to pick up the phone and introduce myself to Bernard Malamud and say, "I'd like to introduce myself to you and to come meet you. I think I might have something that's worthy of your skills as a writer."”

Source : Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.
“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyoneâ€™s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thingâ€™s broken?”
“I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.”
“Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.”
“There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.”

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