"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth."

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Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

Bridget Riley

#Opening Up Quotes #Space Quotes #Depth Quotes

“We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.”
“After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.”
“Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really canâ€™t articulate.”
“There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.”
“Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.”
“To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.”

Source : Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.71, Gideon House Books
“the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.”

Source : Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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