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“Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.”

Quote by Paul Klee

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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. more

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“The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.”

People Facts Creativity Creative Creation Intelligent Surface Visible Genesis

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“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

Author:Paul Klee

“I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.”

States Idiot Palestinian Israeli Recognise Village Idiots

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“Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.”

Heart Desire Artist Creation Organs Destined Pits Deep Down

Author:Paul Klee

“Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.”

Mind Sometimes Whole Dream Style Possibility Objects Bears Good Things Regions Really Great Breadth

Author:Paul Klee

“Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.”

Want Humans Fear Human Beings Steps Struggle Climbs Frightened Bitterness Reeds

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

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

Way Ends Form Destination

Author:Paul Klee

“Genius is the error in the system.”

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.”

Goal Fulfillment Arrows

Author:Paul Klee

“What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.”

Kind Art Humanity Health Passionate Sensuous

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918