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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.
Paul Klee
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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
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The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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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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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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Genius is the error in the system.
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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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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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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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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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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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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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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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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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