Richard Diebenkorn Writings
Studio note
Date:
c. 1966–76 Current owner:
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation RD number:
RDFA.132 Description
Transcription:
A painting on a wall is an attitude. It’s like a sign that is hung up to be seen. It says, this is the way it is according to a given sensibility—and its beauty, fitness, magnetism or emotion, embraces the viewer (if it does), seduces him, bludgeons him—but in some way persuades him that this is a way of viewing what is to be viewed.
A painting on a wall is an attitude. It’s like a sign that is hung up to be seen. It says, this is the way it is according to a given sensibility—and its beauty, fitness, magnetism or emotion, embraces the viewer (if it does), seduces him, bludgeons him—but in some way persuades him that this is a way of viewing what is to be viewed.