I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.
Interpretation
Yves Klein criticizes traditional artistic boundaries and believes they confine creativity.
In this quote, Yves Klein expresses his disdain for conventional artistic elements such as lines and forms, which he perceives as limitations on true artistic expression. He likens traditional paintings to 'prison windows,' highlighting that these elements restrict the creative flow and confine the artist's vision, suggesting a desire for a more liberated form of artistic expression beyond linear constraints.
In practice
This quote can be used in an art class to provoke discussion about the limitations of traditional art forms.
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
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.
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.
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.
I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.
Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.
Tell me a story of deep delight.
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
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