Paul Klee

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

— Paul Klee

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only…

— Paul Klee

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art…

— Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are…

— Paul Klee

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

— Paul Klee

See with one eye, feel with the other.

— Paul Klee

“After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.”

— Paul Klee

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

— Paul Klee

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself…

— Paul Klee

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

— Paul Klee

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

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher,…

— Paul Klee

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big…

— Paul Klee

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

— Paul Klee

Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of…

— Paul Klee

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

— Paul Klee

All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's…

— Paul Klee

Make chance essential.

— Paul Klee

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we…

— Paul Klee

Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the…

— Paul Klee

Genius is the error in the system.

— Paul Klee

There is no substitute for intuition.

— Paul Klee

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human…

— Paul Klee

Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I…

— Paul Klee

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

— Paul Klee