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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

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Yves Klein
Age: 34 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 1
Died: 1962
Died: June 6
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I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
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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.
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To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
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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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Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.
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Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.
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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.
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I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.
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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'.
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I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.
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Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
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Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
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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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I have written my name on the far side of the sky.
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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?
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I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.
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Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
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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.
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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.
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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.
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