Quotes by Richard Diebenkorn

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. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

Art

Differences

Mean

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

Mood

Painting

People

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 seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

Artist

Expression

Mean

And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

Sometimes

Struggle

Technique

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 the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

Moments

Power

Progress

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

Certain

Delusion

May

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

Order

Don’t ‘discover’ a subject of any kind.

Kind

Subjects

Don’t be a Pollyanna!

Courage

Pollyanna

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 in reserve – tension beneath calm.

Desire

Feelings

Important

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Able

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Action

Arbitrary

Art

Artifice

Artist

Bored

Certain

Color

Courage

Cups

Delusion

Desire

Differences

Difficult

Elements

Expendables

Expression

Faces

Father

Feelings

Fields

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Important

Kind

Landscape

Limits

Made

May

Mean

Meaningful

Men

Mistake

Moments

Mood

Moving

Order

Pain

Painting

People

Pollyanna

Position

Power

Progress

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Quotes by Richard Diebenkorn

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. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

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

And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

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 the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

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

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

Don’t ‘discover’ a subject of any kind.

Don’t be a Pollyanna!

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 in reserve – tension beneath calm.

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