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
An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either...
Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.
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.
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.
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 emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
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.