Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
Yves Klein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Yves Klein
Age: 34 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 1
Died: 1962
Died: June 6
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Drawer
Judoka
Painter
Performance Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
Nice
France
Line
Color
Becomes
Lines
Writing
Enslaved
More quotes by Yves Klein
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
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
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.
Yves Klein
Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.
Yves Klein
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
Yves Klein
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
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
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
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
Yves Klein
I have written my name on the far side of the sky.
Yves Klein
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
The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
Yves Klein
I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.
Yves Klein
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
Yves Klein
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
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
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
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
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
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
