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Quotes from Creative Credo — Paul Klee

1879–1940 Germany

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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Creative Credo (1920)

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

Creative Credo (1920)

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

Creative Credo (1920)

Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental.

Creative Credo (1920)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Klee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.