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

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

- 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

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

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

- 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…

- Richard Diebenkorn

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

- Richard Diebenkorn

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

- 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