I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.
Interpretation
Yves Klein criticizes traditional artistic boundaries and believes they confine creativity.
In this quote, Yves Klein expresses his disdain for conventional artistic elements such as lines and forms, which he perceives as limitations on true artistic expression. He likens traditional paintings to 'prison windows,' highlighting that these elements restrict the creative flow and confine the artist's vision, suggesting a desire for a more liberated form of artistic expression beyond linear constraints.
In practice
This quote can be used in an art class to provoke discussion about the limitations of traditional art forms.
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
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 monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.
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 distinct character and personal soul.
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
I am a conventional science fiction author. But that said, once your work is published, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the readers and they will derive all sorts of interpretations.
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