Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about David Batchelor
David Batchelor (artist and writer) Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.
David Batchelor
Source
Report...
Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.
David Batchelor
Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Charles Babbage
David Batchelor
Born:
July 17, 1955
(age 69)
Bio:
David Batchelor is a Scottish artist, writer, and a Senior Tutor in Critical Theory in the Department of Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London.
David Batchelor on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
British Artist Quotes
Artist Quotes
20th-century Artist Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
