From Louise Rogers Wikipedia
- Notes to myself on beginning a painting (by Richard Diebenkorn)
- Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.
- The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued - except as a stimulus for further moves.
- Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.
- Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.
- Don't "discover" a subject - of any kind.
- Somehow don't be bored - but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.
- Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.
- Keep thinking about Polyanna.
- Tolerate chaos.
- Be careful only in a perverse way.
https://diebenkorn.org/
