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Studio note

Studio note

Date:
c. 1966–76
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
RD number:
RDFA.216
Description
Transcription:

As a work progresses its power to dictate and elicit [arrows below to switch these two words] response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest [strikethrough] but before [/strikethrough] which [strikethrough] is [/strikethrough] just [strikethrough] before [/strikethrough] precedes the point where “elicit” is no longer [strikethrough] an [/strikethrough] apt [strikethrough] word [/strikethrough] usage. “Dictate” [strikethrough] covers [/strikethrough] is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

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