☝ Top 20 Quotes of Paul Klee - Painter

Top 20 Quotes of Paul Klee:
✫ Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.
✫ Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
✫ Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
✫ One eye sees, the other feels.
✫ A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
✫ Becoming is superior to being.
✫ Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see.
✫ There is no substitute for intuition.
✫ 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.
✫ All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
✫ It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
✫ 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.
✫ It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.
✫ A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.
✫ The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
✫ I paint in order not to cry.
✫ 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.
✫ It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
✫ All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
✫ A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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🖎 Author: Paul Klee
♛ Career: Painter
📅 Life: December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940
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