Interest Quote by Ellsworth Kelly Download Open image “I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.” — Ellsworth Kelly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest Not interested Rocks Shadow Texture
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
No matter how many stones you throw at the water's surface, no matter how much you step on a shadow, the water's surface does… — Kohta Hirano Copy Share Image
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me... — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. — Herman Melville 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
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image