"Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me,……" — Yves Klein
"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 that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!"
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Yves Klein
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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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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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