Paul Klee Quotes
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It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
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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.
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Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
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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.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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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.
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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
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Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
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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.
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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
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A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.
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I still come closest to success with drawing.
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
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The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
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Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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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.
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Becoming is superior to being.
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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.