I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind. Bridget Riley More Quotes by Bridget Riley More Quotes From Bridget Riley 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 mixturesconflictartist 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 aquariumsessentialsplay It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks. Bridget Riley artschoolthinking 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 veilsfocusattention In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. Bridget Riley planespaintingspace I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting. Bridget Riley essentialssquaresgiving I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer Bridget Riley good-christianlossthinking 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 somethingknowone-thingtime
