· I seem to have to do it elaborately wrong and with many conceits first. Then maybe I can attack and deflate my pomposity and arrive at something straight and simple.
- Richard Diebenkorn
· If what a person makes is completely and profoundly right according to his lights then this work contains the whole man. A work which falls short of this content, is only of passing value and lends itself to arbitrariness and fragmentation.
- 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 mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.
- Richard Diebenkorn
· I want painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems.. the better.
- Richard Diebenkorn
· In a successful painting everything is integral.. all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.
- Richard Diebenkorn
· 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 as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.
- Richard Diebenkorn
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