All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! Paul Klee More Quotes by Paul Klee More Quotes From Paul Klee First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations. Paul Klee realphilosophyart I cannot be grasped in the here and now, Paul Klee dwelling-placeheartdeath The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars. Paul Klee camerasstarsartist You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. Paul Klee My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. Paul Klee ripe-fruitinstrumentshands 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. Paul Klee eyefirehands It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. Paul Klee smallestdifficultyreality Color and I are one. I am a painter. Paul Klee paintercolorart Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly. Paul Klee paintingstanding-outelements There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things. Paul Klee learningmusicart Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. Paul Klee fulfillmentarrowsgoal One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side. Paul Klee one-dayangellying When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. Paul Klee sacrificerememberart We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X. Paul Klee foundationsucceedart I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive. Paul Klee newbornbirthwant 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 simplicitymistakemean From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him. Paul Klee eyeartisthumble 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. Paul Klee artistdesireheart I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe. Paul Klee knowing-nothingeuropehistory 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 healthhumanityart
