Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working. David Batchelor More Quotes by David Batchelor More Quotes From David Batchelor I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence. David Batchelor everyday use littles 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 language limits order Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour. David Batchelor colour The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make. David Batchelor materials essentials use
