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Richard Diebenkorn Quotes: Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.
         

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


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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.

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.



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

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



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



If you get an image try to destroy it.

If you get an image try to destroy it.



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 at the time they are considered.

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 at the time they are considered.



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.

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.



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.

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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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.



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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.



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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.



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The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.



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When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.



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If you pray more you will pray better.



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The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.




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