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" I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Always
Two
Felt
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" My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Me
Ideas
I Can
" I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!' "
Ellsworth Kelly
Direction
God
Say
" Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Plant
Meaning
See
" Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Together
Time
Gold
" One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Thinking
Spring
Drawing
" 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
Enjoy
Boston
Never
" 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
Even
Exist
You
" I have a sort of inner sense for scale. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Scale
Sense
Inner
" The negative is just as important as the positive. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Negative
Just
Positive
" I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Said
People
Women
" I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Want
Freedom
Get
" I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Painting
Morning
Light
" I like silence. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Silence
Like
" I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Hard
Like
Define
" 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
Drawing
Boston
Eye
" I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy. "
Ellsworth Kelly
People
Joy
Give
" My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest. "
Ellsworth Kelly
People
Drawing
Know
" Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.' "
Ellsworth Kelly
Said
Open
Leaf
" My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Searching
Visual
Wait
" I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Think
Been
Young
" I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Life
Kind
Look
" All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Work
Seeing
Things
" 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
Today
Think
Doing
" I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Book
Bird
Boy
" 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
Like
Trying
Make
" 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
Strong
Color
Drawing
" Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Want
Joy
Geometry
" I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Way
Time
Myself
" Time has always been very important in my work. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Always
Been
Important
" 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
Half
Then
Quick