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I paint in order not to cry.
Paul Klee
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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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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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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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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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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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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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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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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 way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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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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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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We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.
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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
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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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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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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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