"Painters have always needed a sort of veil……" — Bridget Riley
"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind"
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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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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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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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