The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. - Bridget Riley
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.
- Bridget Riley
I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind. - Bridget Riley
I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.
I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself o… - Bridget Riley
I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself o…
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating c… - Bridget Riley
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating c…
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. - Bridget Riley
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. - Bridget Riley
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is prom… - Bridget Riley
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is prom…
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one. - Bridget Riley
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms. - Bridget Riley
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
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