Paul Klee Short Quotes

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A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.

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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

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

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We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise, i. e., cannot do something else.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

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It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

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

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The purest mobile form, the cosmic one... is only created through the liquidation of gravity....

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A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

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When intuition joins exact research, the progress of understanding will be accelerated astoundingly.

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Be winged arrows, aiming at fulfillment and goal, even though you will tire without having reached the mark.

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Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

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It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being...

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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

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The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

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An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal. A walk for walk's sake. The agent is a point that shifts position.
On Drawing

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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

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Colour possesses me. It will always possess me. That is the meaning of this happy hour: colour and I are one. I am a painter.

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Color possesses me—I don't have to pursue it.... That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

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Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

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By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

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For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

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All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either...

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The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

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

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I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

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