"This book [full of linoleum prints] will be an alphabet of pictorial elements without text, which shall aim at establ…"

"I like to work from things that I see, whether they're man-made or natural or a combination of the two.. .The things …"

"Simple, I don't like the word simple. I like easy better. I want to forget about the technique. I sweat and worry but…"

"I usually let them [his drawings] lies around for a long time. I have to get to really like it. And then when I do th…"

"I felt that everything is beautiful, but [not?] that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work o…"

"Soon after completing the 'La Combe' series [circa 1950] I had a dream in which I was assisted by many children on a …"

"Like the postcard collages, the colors are shapes in a landscape. In this case [his collage 'Napoleon at Würtsburg'] …"

"I made the photographs just like I draw.. .I wanted the photographs [Kelly made circa 1950 in Paris] to be enlighteni…"

"In 1949, I ceased figurative painting and began works that were object oriented. The drawings from plant life seem to…"

"My collages are only ideas for things much larger – things to cover walls. In fact all the things that I have done I …"