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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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“A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.”

Way Hands Eye Certain Support Fire Alive Circles Burning Sparks Coming Back Conductor

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“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.”

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

Ifs Writing Hands Fall Born Instruments Fruit Void Graphic Ripe Obedient Ripe Fruit

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“My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.”

Wells Kind Hands Dark Higher Function Spheres Great Friend

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“My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

Hands Instruments Ripe Obedient Ripe Fruit

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

About the Author

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

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