David Batchelor Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.”
-- David Batchelor

#Order #Limits #Language

“Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.”
-- David Batchelor

#Colour

“I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.”
-- David Batchelor

#Everyday #Use #Littles

“Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.”
-- David Batchelor

#Ideas #Way #Certain

“The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.”
-- David Batchelor

#Essentials #Use #Materials