„Zdůrazňovat jen to krásné mi připadá, jako kdyby si matematika všímala jen kladných čísel.“
Březen 1906
Zdroj: Klee Paul: Deník, s. 759.
Datum narození: 18. prosinec 1879
Datum úmrtí: 29. červen 1940
Paul Klee byl švýcarský moderní malíř, grafik a ilustrátor.
Březen 1906
Zdroj: Klee Paul: Deník, s. 759.
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]
Zdroj: Partsch, Susanna, Paul Klee 1879–1940, Taschen, Köln 1993, s. 41, ISBN 3-8228-0427-4
Zdroj: Walther, Ingo F. (ed.), Umění 20. století, Taschen/Slovart, Praha 2011, s. 114
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1921 - 1930
Zdroj: 'Bauhaus prospectus 1929'; as quoted in Artists on Art, from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 444