My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I’m searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it’s always visual. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes – I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I’m making drawings, and I’m not trying to make them with the shading. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
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. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
I sometimes don’t try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction – and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, ‘Oh my God – that’s it!’ Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
I’m not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I’ve got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it. Ellsworth Kelly Read Quote
