“I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.” WantHappensFormBlackWhiteColorQuietMassEdgesBlack And WhiteNot Interested Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.” TwoStrongColorPaintingShapesPlantDrawingSculpture Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“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.” FirstsDoneFormColorPaintingDrawingCollages Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.” SpaceColorShapesDemandMassEdgesClarityDefiniteAngleCurvesSeparateness Book:Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco Source: Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
“The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.” MadeIdeasFormForeverColorPaintingRedMarkBlueSquaresYellowMultipleRectangles Author:Ellsworth Kelly
