Paul Klee in his artist quotes on his painting art & life - free resource, German art history

Paul Klee in quotes - the Swiss artist on his painting art, imagination, German Bauhaus & his life in Germany and later in Switzerland - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in German art history

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Paul Klee’s artist quotes formulate some of his artistic principles on the relation between visible and invisible. The main task of art for Klee was: 'Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible’.

Paul Klee was a Swiss-born artist with German nationality. As starting artist Klee was influenced by many different art styles in his work, including German Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. He participated in the Blaue Reiter artist-group in Munich in South-Germany, c. 1910; some of the artist quotes of Klee express his early artistic period; they refer to the German Blue Rider artists, as Franz Marc and Gabriële Münter.
In 1922 Paul Klee and the older Kandinsky became both art-teachers at the German Bauhaus Art School in Dessau, in the same years that Itten and Josef Albers were teaching there also. In 1933 Klee went back to his Switzerland, to escape Nazism in Germany.
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Some selected artist-quotes of Swiis artist Paul Klee - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.’ - quote of Paul Klee, from his Diary entry, 1918, # 1104

• ’Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.’ - Klee’s quote in his text: ‘Creative Credo’, 1920

• ’I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. The end has met the beginning.’ - quote of Klee, c. 1920, in: house journal ‘Der Ararat’ of Galerie Goltz, Munich, South-Germany, May 1920

• ’At the moment, an unpleasant feeling presses on my stomach, as though the new year of the unified, national Germany has assisted in the advent of an all too torch-parade-like sparkling wine bacchanal.’ quote in Klee’s letter to his wife Lily, Febr. 1933
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  selection of free art-resources on artist Paul Klee:

  • biographical notes of Paul Klee, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Klee, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Klee
  • images of the painting art of Paul Klee, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Klee
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]