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“My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.” quote by Ellsworth Kelly — Download Open image

“My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.”

Ellsworth Kelly

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I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and…

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All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

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Time has always been very important in my work.

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My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes,…

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The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

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The negative is just as important as the positive.

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The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea…

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