Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
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 … - Ellsworth Kelly
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 …
- Ellsworth Kelly
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
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.
I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive. - Ellsworth Kelly
I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best. - Ellsworth Kelly
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.
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… - Ellsworth Kelly
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…
I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can b… - Ellsworth Kelly
I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can b…
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. - Ellsworth Kelly
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow. - Ellsworth Kelly
I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direc… - Ellsworth Kelly
Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direc…
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