"The essential of painting is that 'something', that……" — 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 he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting."
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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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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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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.
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