All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means… — 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
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. — 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
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — 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
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty… — 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
