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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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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
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University Teacher
Visual Artist
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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.
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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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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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Becoming is superior to being.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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.
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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.
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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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