--- title: "4 Colour Quotes By Yves Klein" description: "4 Colour quotes by Yves Klein. Plus more from Yves Klein and more Colour sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63b/yves-klein-18098_blue_it-was-then-that-i-remembered-the-colour_817254.png" --- > [It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63b/yves-klein-18098_blue_it-was-then-that-i-remembered-the-colour_817254.png) > [I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/i-was-trying-to-show-colour-but-i-realized-at-the-private-view-that/) [Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aaa/yves-klein-18098_artist_i-was-trying-to-show-colour-but-i-realiz_2040531.png) > [The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/the-immaterial-blue-colour-shown-at-iris-clert-s-in-april-had-in/) [Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/538/yves-klein-18098_april_the-immaterial-blue-colour-shown-at-iris_2178020.jpg) > [Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/blue-has-no-dimensions-it-is-beyond-dimensions-whereas-the-other/) [Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/yves-klein-18098_abstract_blue-has-no-dimensions-it-is-beyond-dime_3185047.jpg) ## Other authors on Colour - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-j-phillips-94384.jpg) Walter J. Phillips 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/walter-j-phillips/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vincent-van-gogh-93793.jpg) Vincent Van Gogh 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/vincent-van-gogh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/oscar-wilde/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gerhard-richter-38308.jpg) Gerhard Richter 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/gerhard-richter/) - [Mehmet Murat Ildan 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/mehmet-murat-ildan/) - [David Papineau 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/david-papineau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-leonardo-da-vinci-59740.jpg) Leonardo da Vinci 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/leonardo-da-vinci/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-winston-churchill-96197.jpg) Winston Churchill 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/winston-churchill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-craigmartin-67011.jpg) Michael Craig-Martin 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/michael-craig-martin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-virginia-woolf-93906.jpg) Virginia Woolf 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/virginia-woolf/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paul-cezanne-73824.jpg) Paul Cezanne 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/paul-cezanne/) ## 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/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/colour/yves-klein/#itemlist", "name": "4 Colour Quotes By Yves Klein", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. 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