43 Quotes by Bridget Riley

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

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

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

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

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.

I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

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

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.