Richard Diebenkorn Writings
Studio note
Date:
c. 1956–59 Current owner:
Richard Diebenkorn Foundation Archives
Credit Line:
© Richard Diebenkorn Foundation RD number:
RDFA.226 Description
Transcription:
Each of my paintings involves the breaking down of a system of representation based on retinal images. I wish I could go directly [partially illegible] to symbolic representation [strikethrough] but no sym [/strikethrough] and I wish the kind that I arrive at weren’t a compromise with the retinal.
Each of my paintings involves the breaking down of a system of representation based on retinal images. I wish I could go directly [partially illegible] to symbolic representation [strikethrough] but no sym [/strikethrough] and I wish the kind that I arrive at weren’t a compromise with the retinal.