"The eye can travel over the surface in……" — Bridget Riley
"The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events."
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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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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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