Quotes about Yves Klein

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Clement Greenberg talked about the ideas or possibilities of painting in his - I think -, 'After Abstract Expressionism' article, and he allows a blank canvas to be an idea for a painting. It might not be a good idea, but it's certainly valid. Yves Klein did the empty gallery. He sold 'air', and that was a conceptualized art, I guess.

The 'Grey Pictures' were done at a time when there were monochrome paintings everywhere. I painted them nonetheless.... Not Kelly, but Bob Ryman, Brice Marden, Alan Charlton, Yves Klein and many others.

Gerhard Richter