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Blue Quote by 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.” quote by Yves Klein — Download Open image

“I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.”

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

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

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

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

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

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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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When I haven't any blue I use red.

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It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so…

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of…

Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?'

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The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply…

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I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese…

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former…

Mother, she likes the blue material just fine.

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You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm…

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it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words…

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