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Make chance essential.

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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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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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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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There is no substitute for intuition.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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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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My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.
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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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Becoming is superior to being.
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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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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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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See with one eye, feel with the other.
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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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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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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.
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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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