Yves Klein Quotes

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.

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

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Our entire being is nourished by color.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

Color, to continue had to occur in space.

All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

Color cannot stand alone.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

Color deceives continuously.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.