120 Quotes by Paul Klee

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.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.