David Batchelor Quotes

• 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

  Gary Hume, Adrian Searle, David Batchelor, British Council (1999). “Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999”

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• 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

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• Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

  David Batchelor

  Colour

  David Batchelor (2000). “Chromophobia”, p.71, Reaktion Books

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• Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

  David Batchelor

  Ideas, Way, Certain

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• The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

  David Batchelor

  Essentials, Use, Materials

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