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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

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Paul Klee
Age: 61 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 18
Died: 1940
Died: May 29
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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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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
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I paint in order not to cry.
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Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
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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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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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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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Make chance essential.
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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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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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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
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Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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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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Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
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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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Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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