"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."

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Source : Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions

Yves Klein

#Bars Quotes #Lines Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.”
“I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.”
“Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.”
“To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.”
“Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own personal dream, whatever that may be - sports, medicine, law, business, music, writing, whatever. The same principles apply. Turn your dream into a goal and learn how to attack that goal systematically. Break it into bite-size chunks that seem possible, and then don't give up. Just keep plugging away.”
“Prince William's pregnant wife, Kate Middleton, is past her due date. Doctors may have to induce labor. To speed up the birth, doctors have been telling the baby, 'Come on out. You will never have to work a day in your life.'”
“The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.”
“See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.”

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