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…
• I paint in order not to cry.
• Becoming is superior to being.
• 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,…
• I still come closest to success with drawing.
• An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
• Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
• Color and I are one. I am a painter.
• Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
• There is no substitute for intuition.
• 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.…
• My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
• Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
• Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
• 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…
• Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
• 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,…
• All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
• 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…
• 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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