Paul Klee Quotes

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

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  Art, Doe, Visible

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• Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

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  Color, Brain, Universe

  Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

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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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  Art, Holiday, Opportunity

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

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• One eye sees, the other feels.

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  Inspirational, Art, Eye

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

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

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  Art, Drawing, Sketching

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• Becoming is superior to being.

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  Becoming, Conformity, Superiors

  Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

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

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  Real, Interesting, Spite

  Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (1992). “Paul Klee Notebooks: The thinking eye”, Overlook Pr

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

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  Art

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• There is no substitute for intuition.

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  Intuition, Substitutes

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

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  Artist, Philosopher, Poet

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.256, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Art, World, Today

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

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• My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

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  Dark, Hands, Spheres

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• 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.

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  Art, Pain, Color

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

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• It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

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  Memories, Distance, Moving

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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

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  Life, Art, Expression

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

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• I paint in order not to cry.

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  Art, Order, Cry

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• An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

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  Moving, Drawing, Goal

  Pedagogical Sketchbook ch. 1 (1925)

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• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

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  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

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  Birthday, Children, Artistic Ability

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

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  Color, Needs, Happy Hour

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

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  Art, Doe, Visible

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

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• A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

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  Expression, Quality, Fairy

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”

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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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  Art, Memories, Dark

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

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• 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?

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  Heart, Artist, Secret Places

  Paul Klee, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Richard Verdi (1991). “Paul Klee: dialogue with nature”, Prestel Pub

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• See with one eye, feel with the other.

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  Eye, Feels

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