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“To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.”

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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“In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.”

Way Looks Lost Grows Goal Stage Type Activity Productive Intensity New Ways Genesis

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.”

Way Doe Art Beautiful Beauty Subjects Art Is Overcoming Ugly Tied Representation Avoiding Inseparable Pictorial

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.”

Matter Minutes Instance Hypothesis

Author:Paul Klee

“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

Author:Paul Klee

“I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.”

Years Firsts Self Character Bigs Views Clear Inner Self Disappearance Clear View Blinkers

Author:Paul Klee

“I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.”

Stills Use Results Color Bears Fruit Drawing Closest Dubious

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

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

Political Figures Appearance Composition Conceit Satirical

Author:Paul Klee

“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

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi