Paul Klee Quotes
"One eye sees, the other feels."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Eye)
"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Art, Life, Expression)
"The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Will)
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Art)
"A line is a dot that went for a walk."
- Paul Klee
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Time, Day)
"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."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Beauty, First, Light, Shame, Will, Woman)
"A drawing is simply a line going for a walk."
- Paul Klee
"Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Nature, Artist, Confusion)
"In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Execution, May, Self, Symbol)
"He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Style)
"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."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Will)
"When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Work, Art)
"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Meaning, Will)
"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Positive, Numbers)
"The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Art, Science, Concern, State)
"Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age."
- Paul Klee
(Related: Age, Wisdom, Ability, Children, Corruption)