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I paint in order not to cry.

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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
Designer
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
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Visual Artist
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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.
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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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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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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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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.
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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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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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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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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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Make chance essential.
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A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.
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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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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
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Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.
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