All Yves Klein Quotes
- For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color,… Base
- Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. Color
- Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing. Becomes
- I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison… Abstract
- The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he… All
- I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the… Art
- The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art. Absolute
- My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My… All
- 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,… Across
- I have written my name on the far side of the sky. Far
- The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that… Believe
- Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue… Abstract
- Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions. Beyond
- Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state. Color
- 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… Burning
- To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. Communication
- Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of… Accord
- I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue. Blue
- Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. Extreme
- I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood... Childhood
- Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… Absolute
- Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the… All
- I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. Canvas
- I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. Acquired