„Zdůrazňovat jen to krásné mi připadá, jako kdyby si matematika všímala jen kladných čísel.“
Březen 1906
Zdroj: Klee Paul: Deník, s. 759.
Paul Klee citáty
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Paul Klee
Datum narození: 18. prosinec 1879
Datum úmrtí: 29. červen 1940
Paul Klee byl švýcarský moderní malíř, grafik a ilustrátor.
Citáty Paul Klee
„Barva se mne zmocnila; už se za ní nemusím honit, vím, že mě drží navždycky. Barva a já jsme jedno. Jsem malíř.“
1914
Zdroj: [Největší obrazy Paula Klee vystaveny v Tate Modern, designmagazin.cz, 2013-11-23, 2014-03-13 š, http://www.designmagazin.cz/umeni/45444-nejvetsi-obrazy-paula-klee-vystaveny-v-tate-modern.html]
„Člověk, na rozdíl od božské existence narozený jen s jedním andělským křídlem, se neustále pokouší létat. A přesto, že si při tom polámal nohy i ruce, stále zůstává ideálu létání věrný.“
Zdroj: Partsch, Susanna, Paul Klee 1879–1940, Taschen, Köln 1993, s. 41, ISBN 3-8228-0427-4
„Jestliže u mých prací někdy vzniká dojem primitivnosti, je vysvětlitelný mou disciplínou redukovat vše na minimum stupňů. Je to jen úspornost, poslední profesionální poznatek, tedy opak skutečné primitivnosti.“
Zdroj: Walther, Ingo F. (ed.), Umění 20. století, Taschen/Slovart, Praha 2011, s. 114
„His [ Van Gogh's] pathos is alien to me, especially in my current phase, but he is certainly a genius. Pathetic to the point of being pathological, this endangered man can endanger one who does not see through him. Here a brain is consumed by the fire of a star. It frees itself in its work just before the catastrophe. Deepest tragedy takes place here, real tragedy, natural tragedy, exemplary tragedy. Permit me to be terrified.“
Quote (1908), # 816, in The Diaries of Paul Klee; University of California Press, 1964; as quoted by Francesco Mazzaferro, in 'The Diaries of Paul Klee - Part Three' : Klee as a Secessionist and a Neo-Impressionist Artist http://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.nl/2015/05/paul-klee-ev.html
1903 - 1910
„Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.“
Diary entry (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
1903 - 1910
Kontext: Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
„The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be, or at least become, an individual.“
Diary entry (3 June 1902), # 411, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
1895 - 1902
Kontext: The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be, or at least become, an individual. The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
„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.“
Section V
1916 - 1920, Creative Credo (1920)
Kontext: Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. 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.
„My mirror probes down to the heart.“
Diary entry (Munich, 1901), # 136, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 48
1895 - 1902
Kontext: 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.
„Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.“
Section I
(de) Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar.
1916 - 1920, Creative Credo (1920)
Varianta: Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
„The work as human action (genesis) is productive as well as receptive. It is continuity.“
I.13 Productive | Receptive, p. 33
1921 - 1930, Pedagogical Sketch Book, (1925)
„I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. The end has met the beginning.“
German original version: Diesseitig bin ich gar nicht fassbar. Denn ich wohne grad so gut bei den Toten, wie bei den Ungeborenen. Etwas näher dem Herzen der Schöpfung als üblich. Und noch lange nicht nahe genug.
Quote from Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Goltz, Munich, published in the gallery's house journal Der Ararat (May 1920). These words were later used as Klee's epitaph in 1940.
Variant translation: I cannot be understood at all on this earth. For I live as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.
As quoted in Paul Klee: His Work and Thought (1991) by Marcel Franciscono, p. 5
1916 - 1920
