Richard Diebenkorn Writings
Studio note
Date:
c. 1966–76 Current owner:
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation RD number:
RDFA.218 Description
Transcription:
I attempt to make the lines and shapes right and because spatiality is intrinsic to a line-shape continuum it too must be dealt with—made right.
One’s sense of rightness involves absolutely the whole person and hopefully others in some basic sense. What is important to artistic communication is only this basic part but if the artist doesn’t make his work right he has no idea what he has left out.
I attempt to make the lines and shapes right and because spatiality is intrinsic to a line-shape continuum it too must be dealt with—made right.
One’s sense of rightness involves absolutely the whole person and hopefully others in some basic sense. What is important to artistic communication is only this basic part but if the artist doesn’t make his work right he has no idea what he has left out.