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Bridget Riley Quotes
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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
Bridget Riley
Experience
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Used
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Until
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.
Bridget Riley
Work
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Made
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Artist
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.
Bridget Riley
Work
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Today
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May
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Bridget Riley
Artist
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Goes
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Along
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Bridget Riley
Mental
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Activity
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Focusing
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
Bridget Riley
Nature
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Forces
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Landscape
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.
Bridget Riley
Time
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Else
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Valuable
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
Bridget Riley
Loss
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Lack
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Center
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
Bridget Riley
Work
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Nature
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Although
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
Bridget Riley
Between
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Wanted
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Picture
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.
Bridget Riley
Freedom
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Focus
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Attention
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Bridget Riley
Spiritual
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Values
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Painting
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
Bridget Riley
Time
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Reality
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Belief
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Biography
Nationality:
British
Type:
Artist
Born:
April 24
, 1931
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