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A line is a dot that went for a walk.

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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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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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By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
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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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Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
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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.
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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.
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
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Make chance essential.
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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.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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Genius is the error in the system.
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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.
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The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
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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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