Quotes from Paul Klee

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.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

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

Becoming is superior to being.

After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

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

I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.

Art does not render what is visible, but renders visible.

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

The artist does not ascribe to the natural form of appearance the same convincing significance as the realists who are his critics. He does not feel so intimately bound to that reality, because he cannot see in the formal products of nature the essence of the creative process. He is more concerned with formative powers than with formal products.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern Kunst macht sichtbar.

I imagined face and genitals to be the corresponding poles of the female sex, when girls wept I thought of pudenda weeping in unison.