"I want to take as the canvas for……" — Yves Klein

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

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24 Quotes by Yves Klein

Yves Klein has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same…
Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.
Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract,…
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his…
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must…
The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the…
As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and…
I have written my name on the far side of the sky.
The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I…
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 Canvas Quotes

This quote is filed under Canvas Quotes, one of 452 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is… — John Berger
The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible. — Pierre Bonnard
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some… — Vanna Bonta
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like… — Sophia Bush
The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People… — Nick Cave
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. — Paul Cezanne
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. — Bob Hope
With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin. — Drake
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? — Pat Morita

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