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The negative is just as important as the positive.

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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

I like silence.

Ellsworth Kelly

The negative is just as important as the positive.

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.

Ellsworth Kelly

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

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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

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

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

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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

Ellsworth Kelly

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