Yves Klein Art Quotations

I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.

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

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.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

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