Bridget Riley Quotes
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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I never say no to an ice cream.
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The law is cruel.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.
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I could get your brains for a bargain, like I bought it from Target. Hip hop is my supermarket; shopping cart full of fake hip hop artists.
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I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
