Quote: One does not lash hat 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. [Paull Klee]
Quote: 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. [Paull Klee]
Quote: Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. [Paull Klee]
Quote: Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. [Paull Klee]
Quote: He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise. [Paull Klee]
Quote: The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. [Paull Klee]
Quote: Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. [Paull Klee]
Quote: 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. [Paull Klee]
Quote: The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. [Paull Klee]
Quote: To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. [Paull Klee]
Quote: One eye sees, the other feels. [Paull Klee]
Quote: A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. [Paull Klee]
Quote: A line is a dot that went for a walk. [Paull Klee]
Quote: Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. [Paull Klee]
Quote: 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. [Paull Klee]
Quote: The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen [Paull Klee]