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“One eye sees, the other feels.”
-- Paul Klee
#Inspirational #Art #Eye
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“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
-- Paul Klee
#Inspirational #Art #Drawing
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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.”
-- Paul Klee
#Color #Needs #Hours
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“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
#Art #Real #Philosophy
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“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
-- Paul Klee
#Inspirational #Change #Recovery
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“Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Doe
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“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
#Life #Spiritual #Unchanging
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“All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Memories #Dark
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“Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.”
-- Paul Klee
#Color #Brain #Universe
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“I paint in order not to cry.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Order #Cry
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“Color and I are one. I am a painter.”
-- Paul Klee
#Color #Painter
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“You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.”
-- Paul Klee
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“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
#Art #Holiday #Opportunity
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“Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Drawing #Lines
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“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Drawing #Lines
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“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
#Real #Heart #Writing
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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.”
-- Paul Klee
#Birthday #Children #Age
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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.”
-- Paul Klee
#Life #Art #Expression
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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.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Pain #Color
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“The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.”
-- Paul Klee
#History #Painting #Should
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“Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.”
-- Paul Klee
#Skeletons #People #Humanity
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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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“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
#Fall #Writing #Hands
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“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
-- Paul Klee
#Art #Doe
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“A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.”
-- Paul Klee
#Lines #Sake #Speak
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“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”
-- Paul Klee
#Music #Art #Learning
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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 #Men #Views
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“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”
-- Paul Klee
#Nature #Artist #Confusion
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“My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.”
-- Paul Klee
#Dark #Hands #Spheres
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“There is no substitute for intuition.”
-- Paul Klee
#Intuition #Substitutes
