I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. Reddedilmiş hiçlik tarafından boşlukla tanıştırıldım.” — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
