First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Notes from Wikiquote

Klee was married, had a young son then and did the housework, living in an suburb of Munich

Statement of mid-1920's; as quoted in Abstract Art (1990)

Pedagogical Sketch Book (1925)

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