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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."

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

Ellsworth Kelly

#Curves Quotes #Color Quotes #Space Quotes

“Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.228
“I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.”
“Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.”
“Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.”
“All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.”
“A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.”
“Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.”
“An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.”

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