As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle. — 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 call this… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
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 Image
One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential. — 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. I would… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
