I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.
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
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. - Ellsworth Kelly
Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.
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 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.
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 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 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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