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Art
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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
-Paul Klee
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
-Paul Klee
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Beauty
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
-Paul Klee
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
-Paul Klee
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Change
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
-Paul Klee
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Children
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
-Paul Klee
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Color
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Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.
-Paul Klee
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...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
-Paul Klee
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Death
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I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the yet unborn,
Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
But still not close enough.
-Paul Klee, epitaph on his tombstone, purported to be his father's credo
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Music
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I didn
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Nature
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
-Paul Klee
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Prophecy
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One eye sees, the other feels.
-Paul Klee
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Sacrifice
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.
-Paul Klee
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Science
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
-Paul Klee
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Style
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He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
-Paul Klee
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War
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-Paul Klee, commenting on the fact that World War 1 had begun
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Books by and about Paul Klee