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

Richard Diebenkorn

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.

Richard Diebenkorn

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

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn

Born: April 22, 1922

Died: March 30, 1993 (aged 70)

Bio: Richard Diebenkorn 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 were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim.

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