“The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.” MadePaintingWoodsMetalsCanvasSculpture Author:Ellsworth Kelly
“Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.” NeedsMadeLinesSawsStreetsSubjectsPaintingBrokenPaperGlassesCornersMapsFactoriesRoofFragmentsAnything GoesRoad Maps 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
