Ellsworth Kelly Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.”

“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 richer.”

“I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.”

“I like silence.”

“I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.”

“I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.”