Yves Klein > Quotes

“I have written my name on the far side of the sky.”
― Yves Klein

“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.”
― Yves Klein

“…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!”
― Yves Klein

“I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness.

Reddedilmiş hiçlik tarafından boşlukla tanıştırıldım.”
― Yves Klein, Chelsea Otel Manifestosu

“...people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.”
― Yves Klein, Yves Klein (Series / The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway)