The three horizontal bands at the top [in his collage: landscape with paintings 1954] correspond to sea, sand and sky, while the yellow/white and red/white shapes at the bottom are the paintings – though of a kind I actually painted only later. It was the collage that suggested the idea of doing such paintings.

p. 18 : 'Notes from 1969' - In: "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," 1987