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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.

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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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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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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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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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The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
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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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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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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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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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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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There is no substitute for intuition.
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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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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To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.
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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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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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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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See with one eye, feel with the other.
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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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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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Genius is the error in the system.
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