A Quote by Yves Klein

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

Yves Klein

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Color Form Material Purest Purest Form Sensitivity Substance

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Yves Klein
French - Artist
April 28, 1928 - June 6, 1962

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Jim Hodges

When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form, etc., I play off material against material, for example, wood against sackcloth.

Kurt Schwitters

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Dee Hock

My feeling is that in the purest form, an actor is a service to the people. It's democratic in its purest form. That's what an actor is. If he or she isn't that, then there is no purpose in doing it. They're like priests.

Scott Cohen

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

Asger Jorn

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

John French Sloan

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

Swami Vivekananda

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.

Ferdinand Hodler

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

Jonathan Ive

Faith was the raw material substance that the Spirit of God used to form the universe.

Kenneth Copeland

A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’ until you relate it to the body. The body is a component in design just as air and space are. Like line, form, and color, the body is a material to work with. It is one of the basic inspirations in creating form.

Art Smith

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

Yves Klein

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.