Yves Klein

“I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. Reddedilmiş hiçlik tarafından boşlukla tanıştırıldım.”

— Yves Klein

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

— Yves Klein

I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

— Yves Klein

The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being…

— Yves Klein

I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself.…

— Yves Klein

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

— Yves Klein

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

— Yves Klein

“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of…

— Yves Klein

It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of…

— Yves Klein

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

— Yves Klein

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

— Yves Klein

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

— Yves Klein

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the…

— Yves Klein

“...people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.”

— Yves Klein

Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the…

— Yves Klein

The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A…

— Yves Klein

Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted…

— Yves Klein

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my…

— Yves Klein

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate,…

— Yves Klein

As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across…

— Yves Klein

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

— Yves Klein

I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the…

— Yves Klein

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

— Yves Klein

I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point…

— Yves Klein

The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world…

— Yves Klein