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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Paul Klee
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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
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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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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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There is no substitute for intuition.
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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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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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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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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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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 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 the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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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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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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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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A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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