Yves Klein

“At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue depth.”

“Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is, above all, the product of spiritual exercises.”

“Art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.”

“I seek to put the spectator in front of the fact that color is an individual, a character, a personality.”

“My paintings are the ashes of my art.”

“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.”

“The painter has to create a tangible world of color that is not bound by any form.”

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

“For me, the spiritual is in the tangible, in the color.”

“In the future, people will become more and more sensitive to the beauty of the immaterial.”

“The world is blue.”

“I am the painter of space. I am not an abstract painter; on the contrary, I am a figurative painter, and a realist.”

“A painter should paint a single masterpiece: himself, constantly.”