"Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and…" — Ellsworth Kelly
"Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art."
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22 Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly has 22 quotes on this site.
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I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a…
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I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
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I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an…
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Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing…
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The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or…
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In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.
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The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.
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I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
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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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I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
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I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to…
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All my work begins with drawings.
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