It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. Paul Klee More Quotes by Paul Klee More Quotes From Paul Klee Genius is the error in the system. Paul Klee errors genius A line is a dot that went for a walk. Paul Klee drawing inspirational art Make chance essential. Paul Klee essentials chance To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. Paul Klee numbers beautiful beauty See with one eye, feel with the other. Paul Klee eye feels All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. Paul Klee dark memories art Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there? Paul Klee secret-places artist heart I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique. Paul Klee knowing-nothing drawing work-out A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk. Paul Klee lines speak sake 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 real heart writing A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision. Paul Klee quality fairy expression He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. Paul Klee artistic-ability style art 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 writing hands fall The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future. Paul Klee creativity intelligent people In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. Paul Klee artist shows reality In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. Paul Klee finals drawing self It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. Paul Klee growth secret law 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 distance elements lines The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. Paul Klee painting history art Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment Paul Klee taken blessed forever
