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Art Quotes by Paul Klee
- I paint in order not to cry.
- Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
- 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…
- He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
- 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…
- The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
- 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…
- The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by…
- What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
- Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors…
- 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.
- 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:…
- When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
- Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
- The work of art is above all a process of creation.
- Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
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- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov