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> [As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/as-a-painter-today-you-have-to-work-without-that-essential-platform/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

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## More by Bridget Riley

> [It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/it-is-important-that-the-painting-can-be-inhabited-so-that-the-mind-s/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [I work with nature, although in completely new terms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/i-work-with-nature-although-in-completely-new-terms/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/it-was-only-after-i-had-been-out-of-the-art-school-that-i-actually/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/painters-have-always-needed-a-sort-of-veil-upon-which-they-can-focus/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/an-artist-s-early-work-is-inevitably-made-up-of-a-mixture-of/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/if-you-can-allow-colour-to-breathe-to-occupy-its-own-space-to-play/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/the-word-paradox-has-always-had-a-kind-of-magic-for-me-and-i-think-my/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/an-artist-s-failures-are-as-valuable-as-his-successes-by-misjudging/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/his-failures-are-as-valuable-as-his-successes-by-misjudging-one-thing/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/the-actual-basis-of-colour-is-instability-once-you-accept-that-in/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/in-my-earlier-paintings-i-wanted-the-space-between-the-picture-plane/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/i-work-on-two-levels-i-occupy-my-conscious-mind-with-things-to-do/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/painting-is-i-think-inevitably-an-archaic-activity-and-one-that/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/i-never-make-studies-from-nature-they-would-get-in-the-way-i-make-use/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

> [I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bridget-riley/i-used-to-build-up-to-sensation-accumulating-tension-until-it/)

[Bridget Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bridget-riley/)

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