Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
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.