Paul Klee Quotes

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• All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of…
• A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
• A line is a dot that went for a walk.
• One eye sees, the other feels.
• Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they…
• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
• Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour:…
• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
• To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
• Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still…
• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and…
• A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
• When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient…
• Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
• It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
• Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning…
• I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
• The work of art is above all a process of creation.

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