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Paul Klee - From the Abstraction category:
The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Activity category:
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Beauty category:
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 in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Beginning category:
It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Beginning category:
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Burning category:
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Change category:
Becoming is superior to being. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Character category:
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Colour category:
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)
Paul Klee - From the Colour category:
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)
Paul Klee - From the Colour category:
Colour and I are one. I am a painter. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Colour category:
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will pursue me always, I know it. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Colour category:
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Composition category:
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political – satirical – conceits expressed in one figure or a few. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Creativity category:
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact – in the future. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Creativity category:
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 distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Desire category:
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Dreams category:
Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Energy category:
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Fear category:
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them... (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Form category:
The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Genius category:
Genius is the error in the system. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Goals category:
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Harmony category:
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)
Paul Klee - From the Health category:
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)
Paul Klee - From the Humanity category:
Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Light category:
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Lines category:
A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Mysteries category:
Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Nature category:
In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises... (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Painting category:
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Painting category:
I paint in order not to cry. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Production category:
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being... (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Reality category:
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Renewal category:
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Seeing category:
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Seeing category:
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Simplicity category:
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Simplicity category:
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)
Paul Klee - From the Space category:
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 and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Spirituality category:
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright... They are all very kind to me. (Paul Klee)
Paul Klee - From the Studio category:
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)
Paul Klee - From the Vision category:
Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible. (Paul Klee)
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