Paul Klee Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paul Klee
Paul Klee Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Paul Klee on Wise Famous 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
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 ...
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!
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
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.
The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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.
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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.
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
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.
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
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.
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.
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being ...
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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.
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.