Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. Yves Klein More Quotes by Yves Klein More Quotes From Yves Klein Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract. Yves Klein colorblueart The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art. Yves Klein vehicleimaginationart 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 movementdepthblue At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity. Yves Klein blueprofoundfirsts To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation. Yves Klein vocabularycommunicationsoul Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions. Yves Klein color-bluedimensionsblue I have written my name on the far side of the sky. Yves Klein namessidessky Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract. Yves Klein seaskyblue 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! Yves Klein existentialspaceeye As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work. Yves Klein nicebeautifulbeach My paintings are only the ashes of my art Yves Klein paintingashesart Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state. Yves Klein statescolormatter I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of my kingdom, of our kingdom!.. ..the immaterialisation of blue, the coloured space that can not be seen but which we impregnate ourselves with. Yves Klein realbluedoors For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. Yves Klein colorracecharacter Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space. Yves Klein spiritualexercisediscovery Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. Yves Klein hoursminutespreparation Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing. Yves Klein linescolorwriting It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'. Yves Klein niceskyblue I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. Yves Klein tasteearthmother The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate' - that was what I needed. Yves Klein christianbelievethinking
