Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

I wasn't a very good draughtsman.

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.

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

Drafting is not only an art, but there's a degree of science as well.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

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 doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.

It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

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

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?

I was always doodling house sketches.

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

I draw whatever hits me.

All my work begins with drawings.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.