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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."
"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
"Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish."
"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective."
Explore more quotes by Bridget Riley
"I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience."
"An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict."
"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
"As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play."
"There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation."
"In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."
"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
"Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind."
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