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 More Quotes by Yves Klein More Quotes From Yves Klein I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world. Yves Klein eye order art My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor. Yves Klein titles preparation creative I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces? Yves Klein burning flames fire The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds. Yves Klein color believe world 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. Yves Klein serendipity creative artist The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life. Yves Klein blue mean reality Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. Yves Klein form substance color I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood. Yves Klein five-senses proof childhood I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France. Yves Klein france next want I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy. Yves Klein different views trying I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars. Yves Klein painting bars lines The purpose of the appeal lodged by the Republic of Tunisia is just to protect its rights in the eventuality that they might be affected by the decision of termination of the criminal proceedings, the appeal procedure will allow to clarify the situation from a legal point of view. Yves Klein money For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. Yves Klein me soul character way
