Frasi di Paul Klee
Paul Klee
Data di nascita: 18. Dicembre 1879
Data di morte: 29. Giugno 1940
Ernst Paul Klee, , è stato un pittore tedesco nato in Svizzera da padre tedesco e madre svizzera, ambedue musicisti.
Figura eminente dell'arte del XX secolo, nel periodo della sua formazione Paul Klee si occupò di musica, poesia, pittura, scegliendo infine quest'ultima forma di espressione come ambito privilegiato e dando così inizio ad una tra le più alte e feconde esperienze artistiche del Novecento. Si mantenne comunque anche con i proventi derivati dalla sua attività di strumentista presso l'Orchestra di Berna.
Esponente dell'astrattismo, considerava l'arte un discorso sulla realtà e non una sua semplice riproduzione. Nelle sue opere la realtà è quindi rarefatta, resa essenziale, talvolta ridotta a semplici linee o campiture colorate. La sua inesausta ricerca si manifesta anche attraverso la scelta dei supporti, che vanno dalla tradizionale tela alla carta di giornale, alla juta, a cartoncini di ogni qualità e spessore.
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poeta, pittore e scrittore italianoFrasi Paul Klee
„L'arte non deve riprodurre il visibile, ma renderlo visibile.“
— Paul Klee
citato in Focus, n. 60, p. 185
„L'occhio segue le vie che nell'opera gli sono state disposte.“
— Paul Klee
da Pädagogisches skizzenbuch
„Nessuno si riconosce in noi e noi siamo avulsi da tutti.“
— Paul Klee
da Sull'arte moderna, Laqueur, p. 218
„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.“
— Paul Klee
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
„My mirror probes down to the heart.“
— Paul Klee
Context: 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.
Diary entry (Munich, 1901), # 136, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 48
„The main thing now is not to paint precociously but to be, or at least become, an individual.“
— Paul Klee
Context: 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.
Diary entry (3 June 1902), # 411, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
„Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.“
— Paul Klee
Context: 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 (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
„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.“
— Paul Klee
Context: 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.
Section V
„And now an altogether revolutionary discovery: to adapt oneself to the contents of the paintbox is more important than [to] nature and its study. I must some day be able to improvise freely on the chromatic keyboard of the rows of watercolor cup.“
— Paul Klee
Quote (1911), Diary # 873; as cited by Francesco Mazzaferro, in 'The Diaries of Paul Klee Part Four', : Klee as an Expressionist and Constructivist Painter http://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.nl/2015/05/paul-klee-ev27.html
„But by way of consolation: it is valueless to paint premature things, what counts is to be a personality, or at least to become one. The domination of life is one of the basic conditions of productive expression. For me this is surely the case; when I am depressed I am unable even to think about it – and this holds true for painting, sculpture, tragedy, or music. But I believe that pictures alone will abundantly fill out this one life.“
— Paul Klee
Quote (Bern, April 1902), as cited in Artists on Art, from the 14th – 20th centuries, ed. Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 442
