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I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.
Ellsworth Kelly -
In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.
Ellsworth Kelly
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I made it from just three lines in less than a minute. It was the first of the series Water lily drawings, Kelly made in 1968; he admired the Waterlilies paintings of Monet that got the weight right. My eye followed my hand. Then I did all the others, but this was the best.
Ellsworth Kelly -
There is always for me a dominant figure, I simply don't agree with people who see both readings as possible of the figure and ground.
Ellsworth Kelly -
I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
Ellsworth Kelly -
The negative is just as important as the positive.
Ellsworth Kelly