When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majorityis material. When these… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.” — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
