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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

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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
Designer
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
Painter
University Teacher
Visual Artist
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Paul Klee
Around
Instrument
Become
Instruments
Vanishes
Everything
Fruit
Obedient
Writing
Works
Remote
Hand
Ripe
Born
Graphic
Fall
Fruits
Hands
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