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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. "

Ellsworth Kelly

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

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

" 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!' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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" Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All my work begins with drawings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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