"I think that if you can turn off……" — Ellsworth Kelly
"I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract."
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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 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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My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes -…
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More Abstract Quotes
This quote is filed under Abstract Quotes,
one of 741 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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