Best quotes by Ellsworth Kelly on Colors

Checkout quotes by Ellsworth Kelly on Colors

  • I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.
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  • I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.
    - Ellsworth Kelly
  • I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.
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  • I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
    - Ellsworth Kelly
  • 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