It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest. Paul Klee More Quotes by Paul Klee More Quotes From Paul Klee Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. Paul Klee universecolorbrain Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible. Paul Klee visibledoeart 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 holidayopportunityart One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee eyeinspirationalart A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. Paul Klee sketchingdrawingart Becoming is superior to being. Paul Klee superiorsconformitybecoming Art doesn't reflect what we see; it makes us see. Paul Klee art It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. Paul Klee spiterealinteresting All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! Paul Klee philosopherpoetartist There is no substitute for intuition. Paul Klee substitutesintuition 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 paincolorart 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 todayworldart 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 expressionlifeart 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. Paul Klee spheresdarkhands I paint in order not to cry. Paul Klee cryorderart 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. Paul Klee distancememoriesmoving 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 artistic-abilitybirthdaychildren My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand. Paul Klee uncleseyehero An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake. Paul Klee drawinggoalmoving 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 happy-hourcolorneeds
