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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.
Yves Klein
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Yves Klein
Age: 34 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 1
Died: 1962
Died: June 6
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Conceptual Artist
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Judoka
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Sculptor
Nice
France
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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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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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To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
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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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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.
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