Frasi di Paul Klee
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Ernst Paul Klee è stato un pittore svizzero di padre tedesco e madre svizzera, il primo musicista e la seconda cantante.

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. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Dicembre 1879 – 29. Giugno 1940
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Paul Klee: 109 citazioni1 Mi piace

Paul Klee frasi celebri

“L'arte non deve riprodurre il visibile, ma renderlo visibile.”

Paul Klee

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 60, p. 185

“L'occhio segue le vie che nell'opera gli sono state disposte.”

Paul Klee

Origine: Da Pädagogisches skizzenbuch

“Nessuno si riconosce in noi e noi siamo avulsi da tutti.”

Paul Klee

Origine: Da Sull'arte moderna, Laqueur, p. 218

Paul Klee: Frasi in inglese

“The father of the arrow is the thought: how do I expand my reach? Over this river? This lake? That mountain?”

Paul Klee

IIII.37, The Arrow. p. 54
1921 - 1930, Pedagogical Sketch Book, (1925)

“Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.”

Paul Klee

Diary-note (Tunisia, 16 April 1914), # 926; as quoted by Suzanne Partsch in Klee (reissue), Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 2007 - ISBN 978-3-8228-6361-9, p. 20
1911 - 1914, Diary-notes from Tunisia' (1914)

“[commenting French Cubist art].. Trees are violated, humans become incapable of life; there is a coercion that leads to the un-recognazibility of the object, to a picture-puzzle. For here what counts is not a profane law, but a law of art.”

Paul Klee

Quote (April 1912); as cited in Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia, Roger Benjamin & Cristina Ashjian; Univ of California Press, 2015, p. 106
In April 1912 Paul Klee spent 16 days with his wife Lily in Paris. They visited the exhibtion of the 'Salon des Independants' of 1912, where works were shown of Delaunay, Seurat and many Cubist works
1911 - 1914

“As time passes I become more and more afraid of my growing love of music. I don’t understand myself. I play solo sonatas by Bach: next to them, what is Böcklin? It makes me smile.”

Paul Klee

Quote (November 1897), # 52, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
reflecting on his youth and on the uncertainty about the future of choice to make
1895 - 1902

“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.”

Paul Klee

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

“He [in general] has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise, i. e., cannot do something else.”

Paul Klee

Diary entry (Munich, 1908), # 825, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 227
1903 - 1910

“another and longer variant: I now abandon work. It penetrated so deeply and so gently into me, I feel it and it gives me confidence in myself without effort. Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Colour and I are one. I am a painter.”

Paul Klee

Quote (Tunisia, 16 April 1914), # 926, in: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918, transl. Pierre B. Schneider, R.Y. Zachary and Max Knight; Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1964
1911 - 1914, Diary-notes from Tunisia' (1914)

“The work as human action (genesis) is productive as well as receptive. It is continuity.”

Paul Klee

I.13 Productive | Receptive, p. 33
1921 - 1930, Pedagogical Sketch Book, (1925)

“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.”

Paul Klee

As quoted in the film Der Bauhaus, produced by TV-Rechte in Germany (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications

“At the moment, an unpleasant feeling presses on my stomach, as though the new year of the unified, national Germany has assisted in the advent of an all too torch-parade-like sparkling wine bacchanal.”

Paul Klee

Quote in a letter to his wife Lily Klee, 1 February 1933; as quoted in &#x27;Klee &amp; Kandinsky&#x27;, 2015 exhibition text, Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munich, 2015-2016 https://www.zpk.org/en/exhibitions/review_0/2015/klee-kandinsky-969.html <br class="br">in the same year Paul Klee was fired by the Nazi&#x27;s; they closed the Bauhaus; the family Klee emigrated to Switzerland <br class="br">1931 -1940

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