Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci.… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
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