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

- 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

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

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

- 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