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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 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
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
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
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
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
