Yves Klein

"Space is waiting for our love, as I am longing for you; go with me, travelling through space.."

"The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate …"

"At the Galerie Colette Allendy I exhibited some twenty monochrome surfaces, all in different colours: greens, reds, yellows, purples, blues, oranges.. ..and so found myself at the start of my career i…"

"My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to …"

"To project my mark outside myself – but I did it! .. .I found myself confronting everything that was psychological in me. I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function!…"

"At present, I am particularly excited by 'bad taste'. I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste a power capable of creating those things situated far beyond what is tr…"

"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 mus…"

"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,…"