Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
-
Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
-
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
-
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
-
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
-
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
-
I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
-
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
-
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
-
Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
-
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
-
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
-
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
-
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
-
I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
-
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
-
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
-
I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.
-
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
-
I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.
-
I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
-
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.
