Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon wh... -Bridget Riley

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 , Artist
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Bridget Riley is an English painter known for her abstract op art paintings that explore optical illusions and perception.

Bridget Riley Quotes to Explore

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....
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 inte...
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values....
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 some...
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active....
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....
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer....
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience....

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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun....
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal....
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident....
To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination....
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions....
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been o...
No sanction can stand against ignited minds....
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me....
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities....
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want....