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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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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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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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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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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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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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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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See with one eye, feel with the other.
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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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Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.
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A certain fire pretends to be alive it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.
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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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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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There is no substitute for intuition.
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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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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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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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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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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I paint in order not to cry.
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