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May 31, 1923

Ellsworth Kelly (born May 31, 1923) is an American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school. His art demonstrates unassuming techniques that emphasize the simplicity of form.

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I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

'Notes from 1969', Ellsworth Kelly; as quoted in the exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 13 December

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I’m interested in the mass and color, the black and the white, the edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be.

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— Early 1960s : "Ellsworth Kelly, a Retrospective", ed. Diane Waldman, Guggenheim Museum, New York 1997, p. 11

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The form of my painting is the content.

Ellsworth Kelly
— "Abstract Art", Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson 1990, p. 173

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Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

May 31, 1923

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