Paul Klee Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Spiritual, Time

  Paul Klee (1969). “Paul Klee notebooks”

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• In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

  Paul Klee

  Artist, Reality, Shows

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crafts

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• He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Artistic Ability, Style

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• 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

  Creativity, Intelligent, People

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.308, Univ of California Press

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• Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Drawing, Lines

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• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  Paul Klee

  Life, Art, Expression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.61, Parkstone International

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• 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

  Color, Needs, Happy Hour

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• 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

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• ...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.

  Paul Klee

  Lying, Struggle, Color

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.75, Univ of California Press

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• See with one eye, feel with the other.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Feels

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• Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Visible

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• It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

  Paul Klee

  Reality, Difficulty, Smallest

  "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.

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• Genius is the error in the system.

  Paul Klee

  Errors, Genius

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

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• I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
  For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
  As the yet unborn,
  Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
  But still not close enough.

  Paul Klee

  Death, Heart, Dwelling Place

  Paul Klee (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Paul Klee (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Understanding, Mind, First Impression

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.212, Parkstone International

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• To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

  Paul Klee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Numbers

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.198, Univ of California Press

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• One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

  Paul Klee

  Lying, Angel, One Day

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• A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.220, Univ of California Press

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• It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

  Paul Klee

  Important, Essentials, Way

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.115, Parkstone International

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• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Science, Affair

  1906 Collected in The Notebooks of Paul Klee (published 1957).

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• Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Secret Places

  Paul Klee, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Richard Verdi (1991). “Paul Klee: dialogue with nature”, Prestel Pub

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• It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

  Paul Klee

  Law, Secret, Growth

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• Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

  Paul Klee

  Spiritual, Artist, Civilization

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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• Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.

  Paul Klee

  Elements, Painting, Standing Out

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.374, Univ of California Press

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