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

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 Quotes: "Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet."

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




Paul Klee Quotes: "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk."

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.



Paul Klee Quotes: "Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible."

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




Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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

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 Quotes: "Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see."

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




Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "A line is a dot that went for a walk."

A line is a dot that went for a walk.



Paul Klee Quotes: "Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible."

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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.



Paul Klee Quotes: "See with one eye, feel with the other."

See with one eye, feel with the other.




Paul Klee Quotes: "Becoming is superior to being."

Becoming is superior to being.



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake."

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.



Paul Klee Quotes: "Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones."

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There is no substitute for intuition."

There is no substitute for intuition.



Paul Klee Quotes: "First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations."

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.



Paul Klee Quotes: "In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "Make chance essential."

Make chance essential.



Paul Klee Quotes: "To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles)."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible."

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.



Paul Klee Quotes: "The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars."

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.



Paul Klee Quotes: "A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "I paint in order not to cry."

I paint in order not to cry.



Paul Klee Quotes: "He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment."

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.



Paul Klee Quotes: "All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!"

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "Genius is the error in the system."

Genius is the error in the system.



Paul Klee Quotes: "Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox."

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.



Paul Klee Quotes: "A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision."

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.



Paul Klee Quotes: "Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation."

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.



Paul Klee Quotes: "The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk."

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



Paul Klee Quotes: "Color and I are one. I am a painter."

Color and I are one. I am a painter.



Paul Klee Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Art makes something a lot more visible or audible."

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.



Paul Klee Quotes: "We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing."

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