Bridget Riley Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Bridget Riley
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“An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.”
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“As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.”
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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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“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.”
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“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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“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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“I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.”
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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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