Yves Klein Quotes

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

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.

Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

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.

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.

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

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

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.