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I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes. — Ellsworth Kelly

Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach ... And people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them. — Loretta Ellsworth

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. — Ellsworth Huntington

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington

I have a sort of inner sense for scale. — Ellsworth Kelly

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. — Ellsworth Huntington

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. — Ellsworth Huntington

The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.) — Theo Ellsworth

Lord Ellsworth," said Jack. — Andrew Delaplaine

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

The negative is just as important as the positive. — Ellsworth Kelly

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. — Ellsworth Huntington

I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define. — Ellsworth Kelly

I've always wanted ... I wanted to give people joy. — Ellsworth Kelly

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington

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

In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.' — Ellsworth Kelly

The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies. — Oliver Ellsworth

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. — Ellsworth Huntington

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. — Ellsworth Kelly

She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy. — Spencer Ellsworth

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. — Ellsworth Huntington

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess. — Ellsworth Kelly

The whole history of life is a record of cycles. — Ellsworth Huntington

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. — Ellsworth Huntington

America is the last great goal of these migrations. — Ellsworth Huntington

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

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious — Ayn Rand

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. — Ellsworth Kelly

Gravity doesn't exist, it's just that our planet sucks. — David Ellsworth

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade. — Oliver Ellsworth

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. — Ellsworth Kelly

All my work begins with drawings. — Ellsworth Kelly

The United States is no longer a nation that has a government. It is now a government that has a nation. — David Ellsworth

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages. — Ellsworth Huntington

None of the names have been changed because there were not enough innocents to protect — David Ellsworth

You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now. — J. Ellsworth Kalas

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. — Ellsworth Kelly

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate. — Loretta Ellsworth

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

The world will always have people who have more than they'll ever need and people who need more than they'll ever have. — David Ellsworth

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it. — Ellsworth Kelly

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything. — Ellsworth Kelly

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. — Oliver Ellsworth

I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly. — Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin. — Ellsworth Huntington

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything. — Ellsworth Kelly

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

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile. — Loretta Ellsworth

John 15 calls for us to be branches on Jesus as the vine. In common parlance, that simply means that if we hang with Jesus, fruit happens! — Ellsworth McMeen

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. — Ellsworth Kelly

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races. — Ellsworth Huntington

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw. — Ellsworth Kelly

Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb. — L.A. Larkin

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity. — Ellsworth Huntington

In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north. — Ellsworth Huntington

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man. — Ellsworth Huntington

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

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

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days. — Ellsworth Huntington

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. — Oliver Ellsworth

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. — Oliver Ellsworth

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. — Ellsworth Huntington

When men are given the power to judge themselves, no guilt will ever be found — David Ellsworth

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. — Ellsworth Kelly

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good. — Ellsworth Kelly

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. — Ellsworth Kelly

All dread those things they don't understand ... — Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

If not today, when? — Rosemary Ellsworth Brown

Men will always like their toys. It's a woman's job not to be one of them. — David Ellsworth

It's ironic that when I was alive, all I thought about was death. — Loretta Ellsworth

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. — Ellsworth Kelly

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. — Oliver Ellsworth

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading. — Ellsworth Kelly

our trials do not define us, rather they refine us. — Jeanna Ellsworth

The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. — Ellsworth Huntington

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie. — Ellsworth Huntington

Time has always been very important in my work. — Ellsworth Kelly

We rested beneath the stars and I counted each one, giving it a reason why I loved you. It was wonderful until I ran out of stars. — David Ellsworth