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Ellsworth Kelly Quotes: The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.
         

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.


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The negative is just as important as the positive.

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I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.



I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.



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I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.





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