“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.” FirstsArtRealFeltHonestyLessonsUnderstoodErase Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“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.” MenTryingBeautifulArtistFeltOrdinaryArtworkBricklayers Author:Ellsworth Kelly