Paul Klee
Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss painter and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague , the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
“Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.”
“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.”
“After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.”
“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
“One day I will lie nowherewith an angel at my side.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
“One eye sees, the other feels.”
“A line is a dot that went for a walk.”