“I use [my hearts] as a template for all my emotions. It’s a landscape for everything. It’s like Indian classical music -- based on something very simple but building to a complicated structure. Within that you can do anything in the world. And that’s how I feel about my hearts.”
Jim Dine quoted in Ilka Skobie, “LONE WOLF: An interview with Jim Dine,” Artnet, June 28, 2010, (online)

Jim Dine in studio, c. 1983. Photo © Will Lytch.