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Best Quotes by Paul Klee (Top 10)
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One eye sees, the other feels.
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Becoming is superior to being.
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More Paul Klee Quotes
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An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
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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.
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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.
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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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.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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