“You [=Yves Klein ] are the 'monochrome bleu' and I am the 'monochrome blanc'; we should start to cooperate together, we two. [Manzoni's remark, during their first meeting]”

—  Piero Manzoni

Source: De Tweede Helft', Ad de Visser, 1998, p. 161

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