Ellsworth Kelly

I have a sort of inner sense for scale. ”

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. ”

The negative is just as important as the positive. ”

I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy. ”

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything. ”

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. ”

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess. ”

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. ”

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. ”

All my work begins with drawings. ”