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Ellsworth Kelly

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I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define. - Ellsworth Kelly
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I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy. - Ellsworth Kelly
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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
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I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. - Ellsworth Kelly
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All my work begins with drawings. - Ellsworth Kelly
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I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments. - Ellsworth Kelly
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I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. - Ellsworth Kelly
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When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything. - Ellsworth Kelly
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I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. - Ellsworth Kelly
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I like silence. - Ellsworth Kelly
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Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. - Ellsworth Kelly
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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. - Ellsworth Kelly
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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. - Ellsworth Kelly
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I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. - Ellsworth Kelly
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The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. - Ellsworth Kelly
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