Paul Klee Quotes - Page 2

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Lines

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Lines, Sake, Speak

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

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• Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crafts

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

  Paul Klee

  Lying, Angel, One Day

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Artist, Reality, Shows

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

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Numbers

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.198, Univ of California Press

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• Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Visible

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

  Paul Klee

  Art, Color, Painter

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

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

  Paul Klee

  Important, Essentials, Way

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.115, Parkstone International

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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.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Needs, Happy Hour

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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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• Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

  Paul Klee

  Blessed, Taken, Forever

  Paul Klee (1966). “Paul Klee : (1879 - 1940)”

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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.

  Paul Klee

  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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• I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
  For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
  As the yet unborn,
  Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
  But still not close enough.

  Paul Klee

  Death, Heart, Dwelling Place

  Paul Klee (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Paul Klee (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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

  Paul Klee

  Healing, Light, Self

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

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

  Paul Klee

  Lying, Struggle, Color

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.75, Univ of California Press

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• Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

  Paul Klee

  Elements, Painting, Standing Out

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.374, Univ of California Press

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• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Fall, Writing, Hands

  Diary entry for January/February 1918, No. 1104. "The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918", p. 387, 1968.

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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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