I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind. — Bridget Riley Education Copy Share Image
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. — Bridget Riley Activity Copy Share Image
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience — Bridget Riley Tension Copy Share Image
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a… — Bridget Riley Chaos Copy Share Image
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it… — Bridget Riley Artist Copy Share Image
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some… — Bridget Riley Art Copy Share Image
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer — Bridget Riley Certainty Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Artist Copy Share Image
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's… — Bridget Riley Behaviour Copy Share Image
His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he… — Bridget Riley Does Copy Share Image
An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time… — Bridget Riley Art Copy Share Image
I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a… — Bridget Riley Blue Copy Share Image
It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied… — Bridget Riley Art Copy Share Image
I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to… — Bridget Riley Conscious Copy Share Image
The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you… — Bridget Riley Accepting Copy Share Image
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that… — Bridget Riley Active Copy Share Image
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed… — Bridget Riley Artist Copy Share Image
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. — Bridget Riley Active Copy Share Image
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. — Bridget Riley Dynamism Copy Share Image
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. — Bridget Riley Accepting Copy Share Image
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one. — Bridget Riley Activity Copy Share Image
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley Artist Copy Share Image
In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very… — Bridget Riley Artist Copy Share Image
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and… — Bridget Riley Accepting Copy Share Image
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only… — Bridget Riley Appearance Copy Share Image
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain… — Bridget Riley Belief Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Accepting Copy Share Image
I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started… — Bridget Riley Agents Copy Share Image
