Quotes from Yves Klein

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

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

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

At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste a power capable of creating those things situated far beyond what is traditionally termed "The Work of Art." I wish to play with human feeling, with its "morbidity" in a cold and ferocious manner.

I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. ReddedilmiÅŸ hiçlik taraf?ndan boÅŸlukla tan??t?r?ld?m.

people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.

in front of any painting, figurative or non-figurative I felt more and more that the lines and all their consequences, the contours, the forms, the perspectives, the compositions, became exactly like the bars on the window of a prison. Far away, amidst colour, dwelt life and liberty. And in front of the picture I felt imprisoned, and I believe it is because of that same feeling of imprisonment that van Gogh exclaimed, 'I long to be freed from I know now what horrible cage!

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

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.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

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