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Article, Yves Klein

Writings on Cosmogonies

"I understand now the spiritual mark of these momentary states. I understand it through my monochromes; and the mark of the momentary states of the flesh, through in the imprints pulled from the bodies of my models. … But the mark of the momentary states of nature? … I leap outside and there I am on the riverbank amidst the bulrush and the reeds. I dust everything with pigments and the wind, which bends the delicate stems, comes to apply it with precision and delicacy upon my canvas that I...
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Article, Yves Klein

Writings on Monotone-Silence Symphony

"During this period of concentration, I created, around 1947–1948, a monotone symphony whose theme expresses what I wished my life to be. This symphony of forty minutes duration (although that is of no importance, as one will see) consisted of one unique continuous sound, drawn out and deprived of its beginning and of its end, creating a feeling of vertigo and of aspiration outside of time. Thus even in its presence, this symphony does not exist. It exists outside of the phenomenology of time...
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Article, 1959, Yves Klein

Writings on "Overcoming the problematics of art"

Overcoming the problematics of artBy Yves KleinArtist and painterFourth degree black belt in judoGraduate of Kôdôkan in Tokyo, JapanIt is inadequate to write or to say: I have overcome the problematics of art. It is necessary to have done so. I have done so.For me, painting today is no longer a function of the eye; it is the function of the one thing we may not possess within ourselves: our LIFE.Here is how it came about:In 1946 I was painting or drawing either under the influence of my...
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Article, 1959, Yves Klein

Writings about gold

"In London I worked secretively for about a year, to earn my living, in the Old Brompton Road framing shop of one of my father’s friends, Robert Savage. It was there that in assisting in the preparation of glues, colors, varnishes, and gildings that I first came near raw materials and handling them in bulk. In ap- plying coat after coat on frame between sanding, taking great pains to avoid any undesired imperfection or irregularity, I first glimpsed a beautiful white distemper, clean and dry....
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Article, 1960, Yves Klein

Writings: Yves the Monochrome 1960. Truth Becomes Reality

… Leaving my mark beyond myself, I have done it! When I was a child … My hands and my feet dunked in paint, then applied to a surface, and there it was, I was there, face to face with my own psyche. I had proof of having five senses, of knowing how to make myself function! Then I lost my childhood … just like everyone else (one must have no illusions about that). Repeating that little game as an adolescent, I very quickly encountered nothingness. I did not like nothingness, and this is...
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