"Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10460/">Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/democracy/">Democracy</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11386/">In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/drawing/">Drawing</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)"

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16758/">Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.).</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/genius/">Genius</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions."

Klee, Paul · Life and Living · 1 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23721/">The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/life_and_living/">Life and Living</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27991/">Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/nature/">Nature</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3177/">Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/arts_and_artists/">Arts and Artists</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3178/">The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/arts_and_artists/">Arts and Artists</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. 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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31257/">Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. 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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/portraits/">Portraits</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34920/">When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/sacrifice/">Sacrifice</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35015/">Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/4076/">Klee, Paul</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/sarcasm/">Sarcasm</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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