Sets Considered Quotes by David Batchelor

Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work…

— David Batchelor

Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

— David Batchelor

I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all…

— David Batchelor

“Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...”

— David Batchelor

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

— David Batchelor

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

— David Batchelor

“True wisdom is knowing when to compromise your principles.”

— David Batchelor