Paul Klee Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• One eye sees, the other feels.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Art, Eye

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

• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  Paul Klee

  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

• See with one eye, feel with the other.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Feels

• 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

  Eye, Fire, Hands

• The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.

  Paul Klee

  Moving, Eye, Animal

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

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

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Movement, Born

  Paul Klee (2013). “Creative Confession - Paul Klee”, p.7, Tate Enterprises Ltd

• 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.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Humble, Artist

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