"I couldn’t get near what I wanted through……" — Bridget Riley
"I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting."
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18 Quotes by Bridget Riley
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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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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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I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to…
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