120 Quotes by Paul Klee

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

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind.

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.

It is precisely the way which is productive – this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being...

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.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk’s sake.

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

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