Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.

I used to draw a lot.

I've always liked to draw.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

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.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I think very abstractly when I'm writing. Then, as the project moves on, it becomes more like sculpting.

When I think about how I want to reach an audience, I just wanted to make pieces that were inspired by something that gave me so much pleasure.

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.