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Paul Klee

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.


— Paul Klee


#another time #day #enough #larger #little

A line is a dot that went for a walk.


— Paul Klee


#line #walk #went

One eye sees, the other feels.


— Paul Klee


#feels #other #sees

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.


— Paul Klee


#revelation #art

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.


— Paul Klee


#art

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


#nature #art

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.


— Paul Klee


#art

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.


— Paul Klee


#found #his #otherwise #style

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.


— Paul Klee


#confusion #nature #point #taciturn #truly

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.


— Paul Klee


#distance #does #flesh #garden #hat






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With 100 cm × 126 cm (39 in × 50 in) it is one of his largest paintings as he usually worked with small formats. The name of this art exhibition was Schwarz-Weiß as it only regarded graphic painting. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre) publiPaul Kleed in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for the Renaissance.

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre) publiPaul Kleed in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for the Renaissance. He and his colleague the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art design and architecture. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism cubism and surrealism.

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