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Bridget Riley
British
Artist
Born:
Apr 24
,
1931
Artist
Does
Nature
Think
Time
Work
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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
Bridget Riley
Focusing
Mental
Also
Optical
Just
Activity
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
Bridget Riley
Experience
Build
Released
Perceptual
Tension
Until
Up
Accumulate
Sensation
Used
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
Work
Today
You
Other
Oneself
Come
Without
Accepts
Does
Deceive
Essential
Lack
May
Certainty
Painter
Platform
Play
Things
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Bridget Riley
Spiritual
Values
Painting
Think
Archaic
Inevitably
Depends
Activity
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
Work
Conflict
Made
Early Work
Some
Tendencies
Inevitably
Mixture
Up
Artist
Which
Interests
Compatible
Early
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Bridget Riley
Way
Emerge
He
Picks
Along
Accepting
His
His Way
Goes
Artist
Patterns
Certain
Rejecting
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
Time
Valuable
Else
One Thing
Something
Something Else
He
Failures
Know
Does
His
Successes
Even
Thing
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
Bridget Riley
Think
Christianity
Something
Had
Loss
Offer
Lack
Center
Certainties
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