Editorial, 1958, Yves Klein
Yves Klein, "My Position in the Battle Between Line and Color", article from the ZERO group magazine
Paris, 16 April 1958 For my part, the art of painting consists in liberating the first state of matter. Ordinary painting, painting as it is commonly understood, is a prison window, whose lines, contours, forms, and composition are all determined by bars. For me the lines concretize our mortality, our emotional life, our reason, and even our spirituality. They are our psychological boundaries, our historic past, our skeletal framework; they are our weaknesses and our desires, our faculties, and...
