Paul Klee - Artist Quotes

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Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Paul Klee

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Paul Klee

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

Paul Klee

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

Paul Klee

Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

Paul Klee