Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

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

My painting does not come from the easel.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Painters used red like spice