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Paul Klee quotes: A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee quotes: An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
Paul Klee quotes: 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 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
Paul Klee quotes: Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible. Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
Paul Klee quotes: We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
Paul Klee quotes: Colour and I are one. Colour and I are one.
Paul Klee quotes: Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee quotes: The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself. The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
Paul Klee quotes: 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 work, either ... 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 work, either ...
Paul Klee quotes: Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.
Paul Klee quotes: One eye sees, the other feels. One eye sees, the other feels.
Paul Klee quotes: All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Paul Klee quotes: Art makes something a lot more visible or audible. Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
Paul Klee quotes: Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better! Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
Paul Klee quotes: You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.
Paul Klee quotes: Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
Paul Klee quotes: Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Paul Klee quotes: He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Paul Klee quotes: All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Paul Klee quotes: Make chance essential. Make chance essential.
Paul Klee quotes: Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible. Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.
Paul Klee quotes: To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
Paul Klee quotes: A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color. A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
Paul Klee quotes: A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk. A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
Paul Klee quotes: By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
Paul Klee quotes: Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
Paul Klee quotes: I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive. I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
Paul Klee quotes: The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
Paul Klee quotes: Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible. Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
Paul Klee quotes: It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
Paul Klee quotes: Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer. Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.
Paul Klee quotes: The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
Paul Klee quotes: The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee quotes: When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
Paul Klee quotes: See with one eye, feel with the other. See with one eye, feel with the other.
Paul Klee quotes: A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
Paul Klee quotes: I paint in order not to cry. I paint in order not to cry.
Paul Klee quotes: Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee quotes: 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. 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.
Paul Klee quotes: Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
Paul Klee quotes: I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
Paul Klee quotes: There is no substitute for intuition. There is no substitute for intuition.
Paul Klee quotes: Genius is the error in the system. Genius is the error in the system.
Paul Klee quotes: He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel. He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
Paul Klee quotes: It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
Paul Klee quotes: It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
Paul Klee quotes: Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
Paul Klee quotes: 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 than the real ones. 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 than the real ones.
Paul Klee quotes: Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee quotes: I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
Paul Klee quotes: 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 of this happy hour. 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 of this happy hour.
Paul Klee quotes: Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see. Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.
Paul Klee quotes: One day I will lie nowherewith an angel at my side. One day I will lie nowhere
with an angel at my side.
Paul Klee quotes: 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 and now. 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 and now.
Paul Klee quotes: Color and I are one. I am a painter. Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee quotes: It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being ... It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being ...
Paul Klee quotes: The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee quotes: The work of art is above all a process of creation. The work of art is above all a process of creation.
Paul Klee quotes: To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only. To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
Paul Klee quotes: 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. 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.
Paul Klee quotes: The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment. The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
Paul Klee quotes: Becoming is superior to being. Becoming is superior to being.
Paul Klee quotes: In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible ... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible ... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
Paul Klee quotes: A line is a dot that went for a walk. A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee quotes: Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see. Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
Paul Klee quotes: Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.

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