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

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 think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

- Ellsworth Kelly

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

- Ellsworth Kelly

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

- 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

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

- 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…

- 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…

- Ellsworth Kelly