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The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
Paul Klee
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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
Designer
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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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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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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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There is no substitute for intuition.
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My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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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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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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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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I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
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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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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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Art does not reproduce the visible it makes visible.
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Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
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Make chance essential.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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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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