He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods.… — 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
Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;… — 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
