Bridget Riley Quotes

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

Truth is a tendency.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Everything is but what we think it.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.