Paul Klee

“Colour and I are one.”

— Paul Klee

See with one eye, feel with the other.

— Paul Klee

I paint in order not to cry.

— Paul Klee

There is no substitute for intuition.

— Paul Klee

Genius is the error in the system.

— Paul Klee

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

— Paul Klee

Becoming is superior to being.

— Paul Klee

Make chance essential.

— Paul Klee

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

— Paul Klee

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

— Paul Klee

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

— Paul Klee

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

— Paul Klee

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”

— Paul Klee

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

— Paul Klee

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

— Paul Klee

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

— Paul Klee

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear…

— Paul Klee

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out…

— Paul Klee

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering…

— 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

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

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

— Paul Klee

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

— 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

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

— Paul Klee

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine…

— Paul Klee

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I…

— Paul Klee

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating…

— Paul Klee

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes…

— 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

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on…

— Paul Klee

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the…

— Paul Klee

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had…

— Paul Klee

My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here…

— Paul Klee

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

— Paul Klee

One eye sees, the other feels.

— Paul Klee

A line is a dot that went on a walk.

— Paul Klee

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

— Paul Klee

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

— Paul Klee