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My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Yves Klein

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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
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Paintings

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Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
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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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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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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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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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I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.
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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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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.
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To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
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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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