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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All my work begins with drawings. — Ellsworth Kelly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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