Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

“I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.”

“I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.”

“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.”

“History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.”

“That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.”

“I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.”

“Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.”

“Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”

“You never know what's going to happen in life.”