Paul Klee Quotes
It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
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!
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
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.
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.
To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
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.
To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.
I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
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.
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
