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" I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy. "
Ellsworth Kelly
People
Joy
Give
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" All my work begins with drawings. "
Ellsworth Kelly
All My Work
Begins
Drawings
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Constantly
Everything
Meaning
" 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
" I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Five
Get
Like
" 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
" I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Painting
Morning
Light
" Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Plant
Meaning
See
" 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 a sort of inner sense for scale. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Scale
Sense
Inner
" 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 don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Want
Freedom
Get
" 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
" Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Want
Joy
Geometry
" 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
" 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
Feel
Drawing
White
" I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Room
React
Painting
" Time has always been very important in my work. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Always
Been
Important
" 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
Drawing
Small
Always
" 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 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
Better
Paint
Oil
" The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. "
Ellsworth Kelly
Canvas
Wood
Sculpture