Yves Klein Quote

The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being and which he has to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial stuff of the painting.


Yves Klein, catalogue of exhibition in the Jewish Museum, New York 1967, p. 18 - Attributed quotes from posthumous publications


The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being...

The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being...

The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being...

The essential of painting is that something, that 'ethereal glue', that intermediary product which the artist secretes with all his creative being...