Cheer Up, My Sisters

"Although Jim Dine claims to paint painting, like a true visionary what he is really doing is bodying forth memory. His work is a state of mind in which past moments, linked to places and times of which he has no direct experience, are re-lived. The places of memory are the same for all men. Despite geographic distance, on either side of the Ocean, they are an inheritance made matrix—the sign of our common origin."
—D. Paparoni, "The Memory of Death. Jim Dine," in Jim Dine, exh. cat., London, Waddington Galleries, 1989, p. 5