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Paul Klee Quotes

Paul Klee Quotes.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee
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.
Paul Klee
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
Paul Klee
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Paul Klee
Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
Paul Klee
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee
There is no substitute for intuition.
Paul Klee
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.
Paul Klee
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
I paint in order not to cry.
Paul Klee
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Paul Klee
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Paul Klee
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Paul Klee
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.
Paul Klee
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Paul Klee
One eye sees, the other feels.
Paul Klee
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Paul Klee
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
Paul Klee
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Paul Klee
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
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
Paul Klee