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.
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason
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