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Paul Klee — Portrait after a picture by Alexander Eliasberg (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Paul Klee

German-Swiss artist

1879–1940

4 quotes, most often on Art.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
Diary entry (1915), # 951 , in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
- Art
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
Diary entry (December 1905), # 733, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
- Art
- Beauty
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Creative Credo (1920), Section I
- Art
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Diary entry (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
- Art
- Nature

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