Phrase by 'Ellsworth Kelly'

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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.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Me , Feel , White , Drawing


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.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Always , Color , Small , Drawing


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.'

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Say , Plants , Said , Leaf


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.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  You , See , Just , Sense


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

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Me , Work , Seeing , Artist


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.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Work , Way , Space , Painting


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

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Like , Get , Curves , Plant


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.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  People , Never , Looking , Women


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.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  People , Know , Great , Drawing


Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Author: Ellsworth Kelly - American Artist
  Want , Art , Joy , Geometry


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