Paul Klee Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
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Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.
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If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
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I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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If you can't believe, you can't achieve.
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But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.
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We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
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There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
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We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.
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There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.
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I have to relearn—I said to myself—the tranquil pace of those who believe they know where they’re going and why.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
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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.
