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“In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.”

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 beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.”

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Book:Paul Klee: Watercolors, Drawings, Writings

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“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”

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Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.”

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“Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.”

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Book:Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

Source: Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition

“All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.”

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Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.”

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“I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.”

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“The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.”

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“It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.”

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“There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.”

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