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.

More Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

I like silence.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

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.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.