I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
Jim DineFor me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.
Jim DineI work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.
Jim DineMy life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.
Jim Dine