yves klein – satomipoema

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

– Yves Klein –

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.

– Yves Klein –

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way

an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.

– Yves Klein –

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

– Yves Klein –

Ph : Peter Lindbergh

Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to ‘see,’ to ‘see’ with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

– Yves Klein –

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

– Yves Klein –

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

– Yves Klein –

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

– Yves Klein –

Ph : Peter Lindbergh