Yves Klein Quotes

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

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

Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My paintings are only the ashes of my art