Paul Klee Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• One eye sees, the other feels.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Eye

  Paul Klee (1964). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.310, Univ of California Press

• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Holiday, Opportunity

  "Der Bauhaus". Film on TV-Rechte, Germany, 1975.

• Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Pain, Color

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

• Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

  Paul Klee

  Art

• A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

• I paint in order not to cry.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Order, Cry

• Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Doe, Visible

• Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Lines

• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

  Paul Klee

  Art, History, Painting

• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Art, Expression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.61, Parkstone International

• Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Doe, Visible

  Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub

• First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  "Klee, A Study of His Life and Work". Book by Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, 1964.

• Color and I are one. I am a painter.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Color, Painter

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

• The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Creativity, Entering

• The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Creation, Process

  "Paul Klee; watercolors, drawings, writings".

• Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Doe, Visible

  'Creative Credo' (1920) in 'Inward Vision' (1958) p. 5

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Memories, Dark

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

• He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Artistic Ability, Style

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Sacrifice, Remember

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.161, Univ of California Press

• The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

  Paul Klee

  Art, World, Today

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.119, Parkstone International

• Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Space, Color

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

• We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Succeed, Foundation

  Statement of 1917. "Teaching at the Bauhaus". Book by Rainer Wick and Gabriele Diana Grawe, p. 231, 2000.

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Science, Affair

  1906 Collected in The Notebooks of Paul Klee (published 1957).

• There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

  Paul Klee

  Music, Art, Learning

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