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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.

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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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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.
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Becoming is superior to being.
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
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There is no substitute for intuition.
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I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
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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 painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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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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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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See with one eye, feel with the other.
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I paint in order not to cry.
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Genius is the error in the system.
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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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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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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
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