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

"I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and the white, the edges happen because the forms get as quiet as the…"

"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…"

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