The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, … - Bridget Riley

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

Bridget Riley

The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.

Accepting, Character, Dealing, Unstable, Way

Same Author Quotes

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 color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.

Color, Event, Events, Identity, Landscape, Treating

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

Artist, Enquiry, Patterns, Way

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

Activity, Focus, Focusing, Mental, Optical

An artist's 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.

Artist, Doe, Failure, Failures, Thing, Time

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 promiscuous like nothing.

Allow, Breathe, Games, Play, Space, Speak