“The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it.”

— Yves Klein

In 1957; p. 34
before 1960, "Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writings"

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