Swiss - Artist | December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
Paul Klee
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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.
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A line is a dot that went for a walk.
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
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The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
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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.
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
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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.
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One eye sees, the other feels.
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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.
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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