I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.
I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial ob… - Richard Diebenkorn
I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial ob…
- Richard Diebenkorn
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacle… - Richard Diebenkorn
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacle…
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to… - Richard Diebenkorn
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to…
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions… - Richard Diebenkorn
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions…
I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand. - Richard Diebenkorn
I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract… - Richard Diebenkorn
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract…
Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for. - Richard Diebenkorn
Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. - Richard Diebenkorn
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression - Richard Diebenkorn
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
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