"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."

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

Bridget Riley

#Color Quotes #Identity Quotes #Events Quotes

“Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.
“The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.”
“One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.”
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...”
“I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie.”
“In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”
“I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.”
“A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.”

Source : Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Weetzie Bat”, p.44, Zondervan

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