Quote by 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 and which…

— 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…

— 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 bad taste…

— 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…

— 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 blue.

— Yves Klein