Paul Klee Quotes
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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…
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I paint in order not to cry.
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Becoming is superior to being.
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny,…
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I still come closest to success with drawing.
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An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
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Color and I are one. I am a painter.
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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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There is no substitute for intuition.
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My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.…
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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
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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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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…
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else,…
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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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The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here…
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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…
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