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

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he confirms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
-Bridget Riley

I work with nature, although in completely new terms. For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
-Bridget Riley

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

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.
-Bridget Riley