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Art Quote by Paul Klee

“In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.” quote by Paul Klee — Download Open image

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

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Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

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The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative…

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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

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See with one eye, feel with the other.

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“After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.”

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

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What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the…

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The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

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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…

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

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