27 Top Quotes By Paul Klee, The Misunderstood Painter
Paul Klee was a famous German artist, renowned for his individualistic style art which was heavily influenced by Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. His famous works includes Twittering Machine, Fish Magic, Viaducts Break Ranks and several other drawings and etches. His work expressed his child like perspective and dry sense of humor. Along with Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, he instructed at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. Along with his paintings, Klee also published several books, essays and lectures such as Contributions to a pictorial theory of form, Ways of Studying Nature, Graphik and many more. In his essay, ‘Writings on Form and Design Theory’, Klee scrutinized the color theory. These lectures published in English were heavily popular as Paul Klee Notebooks. Famous museums such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum and Berggruen Museum house majority of Klee’s works. His thoughts and sayings illuminated ideologies of Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction. Much like his colors, he often liked to paint with words. Here’s an exclusive collection of quotes from this iconic painter.
One eye sees, the other feels.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.
One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.
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.
Colour and I are one.
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.
After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.
Becoming is superior to being.
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
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.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
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.
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.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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.
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.
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.
