Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by David Batchelor

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.

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

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.

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.