120 Quotes by Paul Klee

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

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

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

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

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

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.