Bridget Riley Quotes

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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
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

Bridget Riley
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

Bridget Riley
For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.

Bridget Riley
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

Bridget Riley
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley
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
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.

Bridget Riley
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
It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

Bridget Riley