Paul Klee Quotes

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• A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

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

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  Color, Brain, Universe

  Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

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• Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

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  Art, Doe, Visible

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• Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.

  Paul Klee

  Art

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• Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

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  Art, Holiday, Opportunity

  "Der Bauhaus". Film on TV-Rechte, Germany, 1975.

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• One eye sees, the other feels.

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  Inspirational, Art, Eye

  Paul Klee (1964). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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• All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

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  Artist, Philosopher, Poet

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.256, Univ of California Press

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• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

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  Eye, Humble, Artist

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• 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: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

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  Art, Pain, Color

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

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  Inspirational, Art, Drawing

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• I paint in order not to cry.

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  Art, Order, Cry

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• Becoming is superior to being.

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  Becoming, Conformity, Superiors

  Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

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• All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

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  Art, Memories, Dark

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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• There is no substitute for intuition.

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  Intuition, Substitutes

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• Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

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  Art, Doe, Visible

  Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub

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• There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.

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  Music, Art, Learning

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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

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  Art, History, Painting

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• 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.

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  Art, World, Today

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.119, Parkstone International

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• It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

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  Real, Interesting, Spite

  Paul Klee, Jürg Spiller (1992). “Paul Klee Notebooks: The thinking eye”, Overlook Pr

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• A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

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  Lines, Sake, Speak

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.193, Parkstone International

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• Make chance essential.

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  Essentials, Chance

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• Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

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  Skeletons, People, Humanity

  Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub

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• Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

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  Birthday, Children, Artistic Ability

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.266, Univ of California Press

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• Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

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  Healing, Light, Self

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings”

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• It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

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  Memories, Distance, Moving

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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