"The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events."

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Source : Bridget Riley, Arts Council of Great Britain (1984). “Working with colour: recent paintings and studies”

Bridget Riley

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Events Quotes

“If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.”
“Intolerance of your present creates your future.”
“The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.”
“I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.”
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
“Thereâ€™s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. Youâ€™re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”
“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.55, Melville House
“In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.”

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