"I think this lack of a center has……" — Bridget Riley
"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer"
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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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More Center Quotes
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
— Hans Bender
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would…
— Michael Bloomberg
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