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> [As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/as-i-lay-stretched-upon-the-beach-of-nice-i-began-to-feel-hatred-for/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

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## Other authors on Back and forth

## More by Yves Klein

> [“I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. Reddedilmiş hiçlik tarafından boşlukla tanıştırıldım.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-was-introduced-to-the-void-by-the-rebuffed-nothingness-reddedilmi/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/at-first-there-is-nothing-then-there-is-a-profound-nothingness-after/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-want-to-take-as-the-canvas-for-my-next-picture-the-entire-surface/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/the-essential-of-painting-is-that-something-that-ethereal-glue-that/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-remain-detached-and-distant-but-it-is-under-my-eyes-and-my-orders/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/blue-has-no-dimensions-it-is-beyond-dimensions/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/hours-of-preparation-for-something-that-is-excecuted-with-extreme/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/at-present-i-am-particularly-excited-by-bad-taste-i-have-the-deep/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/it-was-then-that-i-remembered-the-colour-blue-the-blue-of-the-sky-in/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/to-feel-the-soul-without-explaining-it-without-vocabulary-and-to/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/color-is-sensitivity-in-material-form-substance-in-its-purest-form/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [I have written my name on the far side of the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-have-written-my-name-on-the-far-side-of-the-sky/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-did-not-like-the-nothing-and-it-is-thus-that-i-met-the-empty-the/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [“...people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/people-should-be-able-to-say-of-me-he-has-lived-therefore-he-lives/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

> [Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/judo-has-helped-me-to-understand-that-pictorial-space-is-above-all/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

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