“A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. [about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air']”

—  Yves Klein

De Tweede Helft, Ad de Visser, SUN, Nijmegen 1998, p. 106
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