Paul Klee Quotes
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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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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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Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
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Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
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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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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
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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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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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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 my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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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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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.
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Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
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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.
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In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
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There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.
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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.
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Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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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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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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...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.