15 Quotes & Sayings By Paul Klee

Paul Klee was born in the Swiss town of Bern. His father was a physician, and his mother a Swiss painter. After a brief stint studying medicine, Klee spent the next fourteen years at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Bern, where he began to make paintings that would later become famous. At the age of twenty-one, Paul Klee moved to Paris to study art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the artist Gustave Moreau Read more

He later studied for five years with César Klein at the Académie Julian in Paris before returning to Switzerland in 1905 to assume the post of professor at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zürich. In 1929 he became a Swiss citizen. Paul Klee died in 1940, at age sixty-three, from a heart attack while doing his morning exercises.

A single day is enough to make us a little...
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. Paul Klee
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One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee
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A line is a dot that went for a walk. Paul Klee
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Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see. Paul Klee
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Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible. Paul Klee
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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. Paul Klee
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Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible. Paul Klee
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The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract. Paul Klee
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. Paul Klee
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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. 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. Paul Klee
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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. 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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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. Paul Klee