Yves Klein Quotes

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

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.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Black is not a color.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Not to be limited by the greatest and yet to be contained in the tiniest—this is the divine

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.