“I like to work from things that I see, whether they're man-made or natural or a combination of the two... The things that I'm interested in have always been there. The idea of a shadow and a natural object has existed, like the shadow of the pyramids, or a rock and its shadow; I'm not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock, but in the mass of it, and its shadows.”
Quote in an interview by Henry Geldzahler, 'Art International 1.', February 1964, p. 48
1950 - 1968
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Ellsworth Kelly 28
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker 1923–2015Related quotes
“Shadows…bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.”
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Posthumous attributions
Variant: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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“The light overcame the shadow. But as always, the shadow left its taint on the victors.”
Source: The White Rose (1985), Chapter 43, “Picnic” (p. 645)
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 204.
