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Paul Klee

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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.


— Paul Klee


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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.


— Paul Klee


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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


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A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.


— Paul Klee


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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


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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.


— Paul Klee


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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


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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.


— Paul Klee


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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.


— Paul Klee


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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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