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
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
Genius is the error in the system.
My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
Make chance essential.
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.
I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.
Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
I still come closest to success with drawing.