Yves Klein Quotes

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

To make art you need to be inspired.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.