Quotes from Paul Klee

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

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

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

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.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

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.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

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

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.

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

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

Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.