Paul Klee Quotes

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
• Workout
• Modest
• Pencil

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Free
  • Political

• In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Faith
  • Identity

• Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Lies

• And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Really
  • Just
  • Favorite

• Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Law
  • Irony

• You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Myself
  • Language
  • Learn

• My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Character
  • Emotional

• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Character
  • Fear
  • Action

• I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Experience

• I always write these movies that are far too big for any paying customer to sit down and watch from beginning to end, and so I always have this big novel that I have to adapt into a movie as I go.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Beginning
  • End

• Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.

  

  Jared Polis

• Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

  

  Christina Romer

• I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Done
  • Couple

• I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Failure

• We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Men
  • Real
  • Team

• And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Church

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• I saw the tape and I saw that I hit him. It wasn't intentional. When he hit me, I thought he was crazy. But I just want to say I'm sorry. You know how I play. It wasn't intentional.

  

  Andres Nocioni
  • Play
  • Sorry
  • Intentional

• Knowing full well that I looked like something any self-respecting cat would refuse to drag in.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Knowing
  • Refuse
  • Self-Respecting

• 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
  • Workout
  • Modest