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Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn (April 22, 1922 – March 30, 1993) was an American painter. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His later work (best known as the Ocean Park paintings) were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.

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

Certain, Delusion, May, Valuable

Don't be a Pollyanna!

Courage, Pollyanna

If you get an image try to destroy it.

Destroy, Ifs, Image, Imagination, Trying

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 as symbol later.

Arrived, Discovered, Made, Meaningful, Painting, Symbols

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

Assigned, Frame, Moving, Narrow, Undertakings

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

People, Painting, Mood, Paintings, Start

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 stay in the painting as it develops.

Able, Develops, Found, Important, Painting, Tell

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

Artifice, Subject, Thing, Want, Wells

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

Blasting, Sometimes, Steady, Struggle, Technique

Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

Expendables, Initial, Quality, Respond, Use

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 marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Ideas, Arbitrary, Faces, Sort, Studio

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

Order, Search, Searched

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 myself with obstacles.

Fields, Limit, Limits, Meaningful, Narrowly

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.

Aspect, Belong, Elements, Painting, Successful, Wholeness

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

Ability, Accomplish, Beforehand, Thought, Want

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.

Canvas, Cups, Feelings, Landscape, Maybe, Represented

I want painting to be difficult to do.

Difficult, Painting, Want

Somehow don't be bored, but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.

Action, Bored, Use

Don't 'discover' a subject of any kind.

Discover, Kind, Subject, Subjects

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

Erased, Mistake, Move, Moving, Position, Present