Yves Klein Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

  Yves Klein

  Artist, Creative, Serendipity

• 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.

  Yves Klein

  Bars, Lines, Painting

  Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

• I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

  Yves Klein

  Fire, Flames, Burning

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

• I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

  Yves Klein

  Mother, Earth, Taste

• My paintings are only the ashes of my art

  Yves Klein

  Art, Ashes, Painting

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