Paul Klee's Quotes: top 69 famous quotes about Paul Klee's

Paul Klee's Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Paul Klee's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. — Paul Klee

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. — Paul Klee

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind — Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible. — Paul Klee

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. — Paul Klee

Colour and I are one. — Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. — Paul Klee

The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself. — Paul Klee

All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either ... — Paul Klee

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord. — Paul Klee

One eye sees, the other feels. — Paul Klee

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. — Paul Klee

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible. — Paul Klee

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better! — Paul Klee

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. — Paul Klee

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk. — Paul Klee

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. — Paul Klee

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. — Paul Klee

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

Make chance essential. — Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible. — Paul Klee

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee ... and the poetics of his paintings. — Renzo Piano

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. — Paul Klee

A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color. — Paul Klee

A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk. — Paul Klee

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. — Paul Klee

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. — Paul Klee

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive. — Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. — Paul Klee Foundation

See with one eye, feel with the other. — Paul Klee

Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds. — Jean Helion

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. — Paul Klee

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. — Paul Klee

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute. — Paul Klee

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. — Paul Klee

I paint in order not to cry. — Paul Klee

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible. — Paul Klee

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke. — Paul Klee

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. — Paul Klee

Genius is the error in the system. — Paul Klee

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. — Paul Klee

There is no substitute for intuition. — Paul Klee

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture. — Paul Klee

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. — Paul Klee

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles). — Paul Klee

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer. — Paul Klee

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. — Paul Klee

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. — Paul Klee

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. — Paul Klee

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones. — Paul Klee

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. — Paul Klee

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit. — Paul Klee

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. — Paul Klee

Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see. — Paul Klee

One day I will lie nowhere
with an angel at my side. — Paul Klee

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. — Paul Klee

Color and I are one. I am a painter. — Paul Klee

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. — Paul Klee

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. — Paul Klee

The work of art is above all a process of creation. — Paul Klee

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only. — Paul Klee

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. — Paul Klee

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment. — Paul Klee

Becoming is superior to being. — Paul Klee

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible ... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. — Paul Klee

A line is a dot that went for a walk. — Paul Klee

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see. — Paul Klee

Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. — Paul Klee

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being ... — Paul Klee