Bridget Riley

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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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. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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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. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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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. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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I work with nature, although in completely new terms. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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

— Bridget Riley

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