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Genius is the error in the system.

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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
Designer
Graphic Artist
Lithographer
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University Teacher
Visual Artist
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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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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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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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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the 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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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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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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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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I paint in order not to cry.
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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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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Becoming is superior to being.
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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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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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