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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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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By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.
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Becoming is superior to being.
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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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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
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In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.
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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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Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
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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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Genius is the error in the system.
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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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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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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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In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.
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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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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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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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The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
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