"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience"

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

Bridget Riley

#Used Quotes #Tension Quotes

“It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.”
“My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax's band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that's when I said, "That's it!" Just like that, tunnelvision ever since.”
“Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?”
“We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.”
“An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ...”

Source : Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké (1998). “The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké”, p.90, Oxford University Press on Demand
“My favorite activity is conscience dreaming.”
“The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.”
“I never think, Oh, I'm so beautiful. To me, feeling happy is more important.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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