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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.
Yves Klein
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Yves Klein
Age: 34 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 1
Died: 1962
Died: June 6
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Nice
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At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
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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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Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.
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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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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.
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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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To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
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My paintings are only the ashes of my art
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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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