Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'.

Yves Klein's Popular Quotes

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

- Yves Klein

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 dist…

- Yves Klein

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

- Yves Klein

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

- Yves Klein

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

- Yves Klein

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

- Yves Klein

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

- Yves Klein

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

- Yves Klein

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace …

- Yves Klein