Bridget Riley Quotes


"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
- Bridget Riley
(Related: Christianity, Loss)

"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
(Related: Time, Belief, Open, Reality)

"Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values."
- Bridget Riley
(Related: Values, Painting, Spiritual)

"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
(Related: Attention, Consciousness, Focus, Freedom, Spirit)

"I work with nature, although in completely new terms."
- Bridget Riley
(Related: Work, Nature)

"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
(Related: Work, Artist, Conflict)

"For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces."
- Bridget Riley
(Related: Nature)

"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
- Bridget Riley
(Related: Space)

"Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one."
- Bridget Riley
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
- Bridget Riley
(Related: 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
(Related: Work, Certainty, May, Play, Today)

"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
(Related: Time)