Quotes by Klee, Paul

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself wi >>

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no mat >>

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautif >>

Quotations about Genius

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. >>

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? >>

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all >>

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.)

Klee, Paul