All Richard Diebenkorn Quotes
- 'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result… Abstract
- 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 arbitrary… Arbitrary
- My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. Assigned
- All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression All
- Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position. Erased
- 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
- Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. Attempt
- In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing… All
- I want painting to be difficult to do. Difficult
- 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… Beneath
- 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 more… Artist
- I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to… Able
- Don't be a Pollyanna! Courage
- If you get an image try to destroy it. Destroy
- 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… Action
- 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… All
- 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… Adversaries
- I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space… Arrived
- One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject. Artifice
- Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting… Canvas
- 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 discovered… Arrived
- And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle. Blasting
- 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… Agony