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The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

From Ellsworth Kelly

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

From Ellsworth Kelly

I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.

From Ellsworth Kelly