Paul Klee
Swiss-German · 1879–1940
Expressionist painter and Bauhaus teacher whose whimsical, poetic works explored color theory, form, and the boundaries between figuration and abstraction.
Wikipedia ↗“Die Farbe hat mich. Ich brauche nicht nach ihr zu haschen. Sie hat mich für immer. Das ist der glücklichen Stunde Sinn: ich und die Farbe sind eins. Ich bin Maler.”
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“Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me for ever. That is the significance of this happy moment: colour and I are one. I am a painter.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
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"Creative Credo," 1920 ↗ (1920)
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”
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