Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Paul Kleewas a Swiss-German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory, published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth18 December 1879
CityMunchenbuchsee, Switzerland
CountrySwitzerland
Color and I are one. I am a painter.
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.
I paint in order not to cry.
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.
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.
My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
There is no substitute for intuition.
The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Art makes something a lot more visible or audible.
Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.