Paul Klee Quotes - Page 4

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• Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

  Paul Klee

  God, Sarcasm, Men

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

  Paul Klee

  Nature, Artist, Confusion

  Paul Klee (1964). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.236, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Character, Self, Views

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• 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

  Nature, Children, People

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.

  Paul Klee

  Way, Ends, Form

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• 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

  Mistake, Mean, Simplicity

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

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• 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

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• I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

  Paul Klee

  Want, Newborn, Birth

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• To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

  Paul Klee

  Thinking, Numbers, Giving

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• The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Creation, Process

  "Paul Klee; watercolors, drawings, writings".

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• 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

  Art, Creativity, Entering

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• 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

  Rain, Rooms, Wells

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.378, Univ of California Press

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• 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

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• 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

  Art, Health, Humanity

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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• We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Succeed, Foundation

  Statement of 1917. "Teaching at the Bauhaus". Book by Rainer Wick and Gabriele Diana Grawe, p. 231, 2000.

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• We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

  Paul Klee

  Intuition, Good Things, Constructs

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.159, Parkstone International

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• When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Sacrifice, Remember

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

  Paul Klee

  Knowing Nothing, Europe, History

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

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• Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

  Paul Klee

  Good Work, Accord, Rounds

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• 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.

  Paul Klee

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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• 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

  Fear, Struggle, Want

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• 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”

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• 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

  Color, Drawing, Dubious

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

  Paul Klee

  Distance, Lying, Garden

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• 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

  Light, Circles, Oval

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

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