"I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into……" — 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."
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24 Quotes by Yves Klein
Yves Klein has 24 quotes on this site.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same…
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Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.
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Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract,…
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The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his…
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I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must…
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The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
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My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the…
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and…
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I have written my name on the far side of the sky.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I…
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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically…
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More Acquired Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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