Paul Klee Quotes - Page 3

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• You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

  Paul Klee

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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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• For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

  Paul Klee

  Understanding, Mind, First Impression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.212, Parkstone International

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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?

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Secret Places

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

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• Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

  Paul Klee

  Spiritual, Artist, Civilization

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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• The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.192, Univ of California Press

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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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• Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Desire

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

  Paul Klee

  Moving, Drawing, Goal

  Pedagogical Sketchbook ch. 1 (1925)

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• The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

  Paul Klee

  Stars, Artist, Cameras

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.154, Parkstone International

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• 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).

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• My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

  Paul Klee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Paul Klee (2015). “Paul Klee”, p.18, Parkstone International

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• I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

  Paul Klee

  Knowing Nothing, Drawing, Work Out

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

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• To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

  Paul Klee

  Lasts, Harmony, Achieve

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• 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”

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• Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.

  Paul Klee

  Dream, Style, Mind

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• I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

  Paul Klee

  Want, Newborn, Birth

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• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Hands, Ripe Fruit, Instruments

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.387, Univ of California Press

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• By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Simplicity, Way

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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• 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

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• The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.

  Paul Klee

  Distance, Elements, Lines

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• 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.

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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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• We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

  Paul Klee

  Intuition, Good Things, Constructs

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.159, Parkstone International

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• 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

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