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Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German expressionist painter known for his unique style and color usage. His works combined abstract and representational elements and often carried symbolic meanings. Klee's influence on the art world was profound, and he is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

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Famous Paul Klee Quotes

“The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.”

Art Form Natural Results Creativity Creation Art Is Dimensions Works Of Art Entering Distortion Reborn Pictorial Natural Forms

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“The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.”

Way Ends Form Destination

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“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”

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

Life Art Form Life Is Painting Expression Tragedy Musical Composition Sculpture Prerequisites Musical Composition

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“Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.”

Light Form Active Circles Rational Combat Locked Parallels Intervals Oval

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About the Author

Born: December 18, 1879
Died: June 29, 1940
Known for: Painter
Quotes: 105

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The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918Related source material

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Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, WritingsRelated source material

Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective ExhibitionRelated source material

Paul Klee: dialogue with natureRelated source material

Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collectionRelated source material

Creative Confession - Paul KleeRelated source material

Delphi Collected Works of Paul Klee (Illustrated)Related source material

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