In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better.… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share
