“It was pure chance that led me to judo. Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above al the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is in fact the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.”

— Yves Klein

In 1953; p. 21
before 1960, "Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writings"

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“It was pure chance that led me to judo. Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above al the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is in fact the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.”

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