"His failures are as valuable as his successes:……" — 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 know what that something else is."
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18 Quotes by Bridget Riley
Bridget Riley has 18 quotes on this site.
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Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces…
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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things…
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
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I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
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In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
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I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head.…
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The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should…
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
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Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more…
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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
— Ezra Pound
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Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and…
— Unknown Author
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Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this…
— Pope Pius XI
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major…
— Cesare Beccaria
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It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not…
— Anthony Gregory
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No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical…
— Paul Davies
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My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world,…
— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they…
— Xunzi
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