Quotes of Paul Klee - somelinesforyou

“ A single day is enough to make us a little larger. ”

- Paul Klee

“ A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. ”

- Paul Klee

“ A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Genius sits in a glass house — but in an unbreakable one — conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips… ”

- Paul Klee

“ Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. ”

- Paul Klee

“ The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. ”

- Paul Klee

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

- Paul Klee

“ Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. ”

- Paul Klee

“ One does not lash at lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ”

- Paul Klee

“ There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual, but the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence. ”

- Paul Klee

“ 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

“ 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

“ The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. ”

- Paul Klee

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

- Paul Klee

“ Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. ”

- Paul Klee

“ The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual, but the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence. ”

- Paul Klee

“ 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

“ Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. ”

- Paul Klee

“ 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

“ A line is a dot that went for a walk. ”

- Paul Klee

“ The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Genius sits in a glass house — but in an unbreakable one — conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips… ”

- Paul Klee

“ Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual, but the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Genius sits in a glass house — but in an unbreakable one — conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips… ”

- Paul Klee
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