Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

Ellsworth Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015

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He's been so successful, arguably the best quarterback ever to play the game. If you were trying to follow his footsteps, it would be incredibly difficult. I'd go crazy if I woke up every day and tried to compare myself to Peyton Manning.

Andrew Luck

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We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

John Lee Hancock

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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

John Mellencamp

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I take my work seriously but I can't take myself too seriously. I'm in such a crazy privileged position.

Michael Fassbender

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When you're making a reality show, you can't even plan a week ahead now.

Simon Cowell

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You want to sell records, but if you want to call yourself an artist, your job is how you express yourself.

Trisha Yearwood

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Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'

Topher Grace

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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Michelle Alexander

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Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Michael Leunig

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Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

Louise Wilson

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I so find Harold Pinter and David Mamet's writing to be exciting, and obviously there aren't that many female - at least with Mamet, there aren't that many good female roles. But I always thought it would be interesting to play one of the guy roles.

Julia Stiles

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