Top 13 Quotes by Bridget Riley

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.