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

~Bridget Riley

Topics: Activity Also Focusing Just Mental Optical

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

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Topics: Dynamism Forces Landscape Me Nature Visual

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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.

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Topics: Became Belief Could Disappeared Fixed Focused Interpretation Meanings Open Reality Sort Things Time Uncertain Were

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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.

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Topics: Artist Compatible Conflict Early Early Work Inevitably Interests Made Mixture Some Tendencies Up Which Work

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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

Topics: Absorb Always Attention Behind Consciousness Focus Freedom Fully Greater More Needed Painters Sort Spirit Though Veil Which

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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.

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Topics: Accepts Certainty Come Deceive Does Essential Lack May Oneself Other Painter Platform Play Things Today Without Work You

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

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Topics: Accepting Along Artist Certain Emerge Goes He His His Way Patterns Picks Rejecting Way

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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

Topics: Center Certainties Christianity Had Lack Loss Offer Something Think I Think

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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

Topics: Does Else Even Failures He His Know One Thing Something Something Else Successes Thing Time Valuable

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

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Topics: Accumulate Build Experience Released Sensation Tension Until Up Used

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Artist

Born: April 24th, 1931

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