Paul Klee

Artist

1879-12-18

Quotes by Paul Klee

• Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

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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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• Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

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• One eye sees, the other feels.

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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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• One eye sees, the other feels.

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• Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

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• Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

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• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

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• Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

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