"It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'."

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Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". ed. J & J, the Tate Gallery, London 1974, p. 31, 1957.

Yves Klein

#Nice Quotes #Blue Quotes #Sky Quotes

“I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.”
“He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.”
“Only that which can be switched, can be.”
“If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here... to leave and go to a proper university.”

Source : Source: www.smh.com.au
“I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.”

Source : "Producer Nina Jacobson Talks THE HUNGER GAMES, Sequels, the Violence, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 12, 2012.
“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ***** of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”
“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise, and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.”
“Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.”

Source : "God and the Atom". Book by Ronald Knox, pp. 53 - 54, 1945.

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