Paul Klee Quotes

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Doe, Visible

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• 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

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

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• Becoming is superior to being.

  Paul Klee

  Becoming, Conformity, Superiors

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

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

  Paul Klee

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

  Paul Klee

  Art

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• There is no substitute for intuition.

  Paul Klee

  Intuition, Substitutes

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

  Paul Klee

  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.

  Paul Klee

  Art, World, Today

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

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• It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

  Paul Klee

  Law, Secret, Growth

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Art, Expression

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

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• I paint in order not to cry.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Order, Cry

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Memories, Distance, Moving

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• 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”

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

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Dark, Hands, Spheres

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• The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

  Paul Klee

  Creativity, Intelligent, People

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.308, Univ of California Press

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

  Paul Klee

  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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• 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

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Expression, Quality, Fairy

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

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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.

  Paul Klee

  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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• 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

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