Paul Klee Quotes

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• We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
• It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
• Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is…
• He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
• For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind
• To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
• I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the…
• Make chance essential.
• You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.
• Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
• First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last…
• My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer…
• ...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
• To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.
• In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets…
• The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and…
• I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
• A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it;…

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