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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.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: All My Work Artist Brooding Geometric Kept Me Perceiving Seeing Things Were Work

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

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Constantly Everything Investigating Meaning Nature

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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

Topics: Always Collage Color Done Drawing Drawings First Form Make Paintings Small Then Very

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The negative is just as important as the positive.

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Important Just Negative Positive

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

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Drawings Freedom Get Labor Line Over Want

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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

Topics: Anywhere Because Call Come Down Draw Drawings Find Flashes Ideas Like Me Much Note Plant See Them I Can

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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

Topics: Before Fragments Like Looking Lying Make Never Paint People Picasso Pillows Said Seen Something Things Want Women

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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

Topics: Between Forms How Interested Painting React Room Space Surface Surroundings Viewer Way Work

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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

Topics: Between Certain Certain Point Color Colors Decided Differences Doing Edge Had Literal Painted Paintings Point Sculpture Similar Space Started Style Then Two Want Wanted Were

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

~Ellsworth Kelly

Topics: Also Always Been Canvas Made Me Metal Paintings Sculpture Though Wood

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: May 31st, 1923

Died: December 27th, 2015

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