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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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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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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
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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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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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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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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
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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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Becoming is superior to being.
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Make chance essential.
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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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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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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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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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Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.
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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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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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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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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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