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

Ellsworth Kelly

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything. "

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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. "

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" 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.' "

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" I have a sort of inner sense for scale. "

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

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" I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. "

Ellsworth Kelly

" I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space. "

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" 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. "

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" The negative is just as important as the positive. "

Ellsworth Kelly

" Time has always been very important in my work. "

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

Ellsworth Kelly

" 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.' "

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" I like silence. "

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" 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

" In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff. "

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

" All my work begins with drawings. "

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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

" 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

" I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy. "

Ellsworth Kelly

" All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation. "

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

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

Ellsworth Kelly

" 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. "

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

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