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

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


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I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.



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In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.



Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

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The negative is just as important as the positive.



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I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.



I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.



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I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.





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