"The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon."

“I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.”

“It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.”

“Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.”

“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.”

Source : Jim Dine, Constance Glenn, California State University, Long Beach. Art Museum and Galleries (1979). “Jim Dine figure drawings, 1975-1979: published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, October 15-November 11, 1979”, HarperCollins Publishers

“I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,”

“O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.”

“It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this”

“Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!”