Paul Klee Quotes

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Doe, Visible

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

  Paul Klee

  Color, Brain, Universe

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

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

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  Art

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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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• 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.

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• I paint in order not to cry.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Order, Cry

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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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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

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  Eye, Humble, Artist

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

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  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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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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  Lines, Sake, Speak

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.193, Parkstone International

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Pain, Color

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is no substitute for intuition.

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  Intuition, Substitutes

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

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  Art, History, Painting

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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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  Healing, Light, Self

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

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• It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

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  Reality, Difficulty, Smallest

  "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.

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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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• Genius is the error in the system.

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  Errors, Genius

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

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• See with one eye, feel with the other.

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  Eye, Feels

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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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