Yves Klein Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Yves Klein

  Mother, Earth, Taste

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• 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

  Believe, Color, World

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

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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.

  Yves Klein

  Artist, Creative, Serendipity

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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?

  Yves Klein

  Fire, Flames, Burning

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.

  Yves Klein

  Want, Next, France

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.43, 1974.

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• The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.

  Yves Klein

  Mean, Reality, Blue

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 47, 1974.

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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.

  Yves Klein

  Views, Trying, Different

  "Yves Klein, 1928-1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 30, 1974.

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