Famous Paul Klee Quotations

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"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
by Paul Klee
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger."
by Paul Klee
"Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible."
by Paul Klee
"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it."
by Paul Klee
"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
by Paul Klee
"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers."
by Paul Klee
"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."
by Paul Klee
"Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter."
by Paul Klee
"I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough."
by Paul Klee
"One eye sees, the other feels."
by Paul Klee
"He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise."
by Paul Klee
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."
by Paul Klee


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