Bridget Riley Quotes

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Bridget Riley

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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.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Kind
  • Attitude
  • Enthusiasm

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • House
  • Process
  • Navy

• 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.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Think

• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Women
  • Stability

• 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.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Important
  • Age
  • Senior

• I never say no to an ice cream.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Never
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Business
  • Follow

• I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Dark
  • Darkness
  • Creation

• So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

  

  Harold Acton
  • Real
  • Say
  • Regrets

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Think
  • Star

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Existence
  • Foundation
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • May
  • Business

• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • History

• The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Car
  • Risk
  • Gun

• Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

  

  Pericles
  • Freedom
  • Alone
  • Courage

• I had to stifle an impulse to laugh. Surely 'cowardice' had nothing to do with his decision. Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Live
  • Decision

• I think I once went three or four years without doing a play, and I almost lost my mind, then I came back and did 'Spamalot.'

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Mind
  • Lost

• I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Discover

• As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

  

  Bridget Riley