Editorial, 1959, Yves Klein
"Fire is beautiful in itself, regardless", excerpts from writings
"Fire for me is the future without forgetting the past. It is the memory of nature. (...) It is gentleness: [Fire] is gentleness and torture. It is cookery and it is apocalypse. It is a pleasure for the good child sitting prudently by the hearth; yet it punishes any disobedience when the child wishes to play too close to its flames. It is well-being and it is respect. It is a tutelary and a terrible divinity, both good and bad. It can contradict itself; thus it is one of the principles of...
