Jim Dine Quotes

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Great art can only be created out of love.

You need the art in order to love the life.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

I love art. It is uplifting.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.