Paul Klee Quotes

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

Paul Klee

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• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Experience
  • You
  • Mistake

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Nature
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Nature
  • Kind
  • Hand

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
  • Meaning

• If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Nature
  • Simple
  • Inside

• We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Understanding

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Garden

• Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Nature
  • Period
  • Laws

• Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Nature

• One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Art
  • Nature

• That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

  

  Darren Clarke
  • Nature
  • Team
  • Sports

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively. And the net effect was, during my eight years, 1.3 million jobs were created. We left the state better off because I applied conservative principles in a purple state the right way, and people rose up.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • People
  • Up
  • Rose

• The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Band
  • Understanding
  • Discipline

• Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

  

  Aristotle
  • High
  • Problem
  • Aim

• Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Nature
  • Mistake
  • Reduction