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 used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.' — 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 out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started… — 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
