Yves Klein Quotes
As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.
Citations
Klein, Yves. "The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto." Overcoming the Problematics of Art: The Writings of Yves Klein, translated by Klaus Ottmann, Spring Publications, 2007, p. 195.
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Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.