"My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good."

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Source : "Ellsworth Kelly Casts His Cold Eye on Market, Peers". Interview with James Tarmy, www.charlotteobserver.com. August 16, 2012.

Ellsworth Kelly

#Drawing Quotes #Half Quotes #Hours Quotes

“Never trust a skinny cook”
“Never trust anyone under one hundred!”
“Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.”

Source : TIME Interview, content.time.com. April 29, 2007.
“One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.”
“Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.”
“I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.”
“In my free time I do differential and integral calculus.”
“Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.”

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