Paul Klee quote: "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."

I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the ...
PAUL KLEE

One eye sees, the other feels.
PAUL KLEE

I didn
PAUL KLEE

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
PAUL KLEE

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itse...
PAUL KLEE

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because...
PAUL KLEE

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had t...
PAUL KLEE

...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.
PAUL KLEE

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
PAUL KLEE

There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combinatio...
PAUL KLEE

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridicul...
PAUL KLEE

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
PAUL KLEE

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
PAUL KLEE

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
PAUL KLEE

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they ...
PAUL KLEE

One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little b...
PAUL KLEE

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
PAUL KLEE

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
PAUL KLEE

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen
PAUL KLEE

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
PAUL KLEE

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
PAUL KLEE

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
PAUL KLEE

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the mea...
PAUL KLEE

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritua...
PAUL KLEE

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
PAUL KLEE

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit...
PAUL KLEE

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are ...
PAUL KLEE

Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to refle...
PAUL KLEE

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see
PAUL KLEE

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its ex...
PAUL KLEE

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall o...
PAUL KLEE

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.
PAUL KLEE

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible
PAUL KLEE

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
PAUL KLEE

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the...
PAUL KLEE

Having said that, I'm glad to be back. I wanted to be a Maple Leaf and it seems they wanted me.
KEN KLEE

The very simple analogy would be if you had $100 in the bank and you put in another $100 and look at...
MARK KLEE

I can't be minus out there.
KEN KLEE

I don't think we are going to see a big downdraft here. It's going to be a more selective market. It...
MARC KLEE

Not every game is going to be the prettiest game. It used to be a third-period lead was rock-solid a...
KEN KLEE

I think to a certain extent it's a bounce. These stocks have been down quite a bit.
MARC KLEE

Surprisingly I'm actually starting to pick at that area for the first time in a long time,
MARC KLEE

We knew it was going to be a rocky opening after yesterday's earnings reports but I think it was a v...
MARC KLEE

It may have gone a little too far, too fast,
MARC KLEE

The market correctly saw that the economy was going to soften in the fourth quarter,
MARC KLEE

Euphoria can only go on for a certain amount of time. Eventually reality wins out.
MARC KLEE

Nobody has been willing to stick their neck out about when we'll see a tech recovery and there's no ...
MARC KLEE

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC

Civilisation was built around wheat, around people settling down and not being nomadic. Baking is on...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixi...
PAUL MANAFORT

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
PAUL SAMUELSON

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York ...
CHRIS PAUL

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

If my son is happy, then I am happy.
CHRIS PAUL

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
PAUL VALERY

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending...
RAND PAUL

I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really belie...
RAND PAUL

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
RAND PAUL

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twist...
RAND PAUL

I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health i...
RAND PAUL

Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don...
RAND PAUL

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
RAND PAUL

Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often ...
RAND PAUL

How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Con...
RAND PAUL

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-ric...
RAND PAUL

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to b...
RAND PAUL

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL

The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administer...
RAND PAUL

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
RAND PAUL

I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism...
RAND PAUL

Naples is curiously chaotic and, if I'm honest, a bit dilapidated. It certainly has a 'lived...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-bui...
RON PAUL

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all t...
RON PAUL

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are a...
RON PAUL

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the worl...
RON PAUL

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
RON PAUL

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individ...
RON PAUL

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
RON PAUL

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
RON PAUL

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we do...
RON PAUL

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a ...
RON PAUL

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t...
RON PAUL

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
RON PAUL

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not s...
RON PAUL

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
RON PAUL

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our lib...
RON PAUL

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
RON PAUL

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it'...
PAUL RYAN

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.
PAUL GRAHAM

I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles...
PAUL POGBA

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two to...
PAUL CEZANNE

A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the l...
PAUL WATSON

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work ...
PAUL FEIG

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pu...
PAUL KEATING

Baking is therapy.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

Baking can be done with a few simple ingredients, so it's about simplicity and nostalgia - peopl...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD

When it comes to wildfires, 2013 wasn't a good year, which is why I'm especially proud that ...
PAUL GOSAR

It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds th...
RAND PAUL

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.
PAUL WATSON

Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real li...
PAUL RUDD

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the ...
PAUL STRAND

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society ...
RON PAUL

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner struc...
PAUL VALERY

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept b...
PAUL GRAHAM

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.
PAUL THEROUX

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make ...
PAUL THEROUX

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
PAUL THEROUX

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with su...
PAUL THEROUX

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazi...
PAUL THEROUX

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and ...
PAUL THEROUX

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up a...
PAUL THEROUX

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my pati...
PAUL THEROUX

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
PAUL THEROUX

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I...
PAUL THEROUX

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
PAUL THEROUX

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mut...
PAUL THEROUX

I am happy being what I am.
PAUL THEROUX

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and...
PAUL THEROUX

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on th...
PAUL KURTZ

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often ...
PAUL JOHNSON

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.
PAUL REVERE

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
PAUL VALERY

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...
PAUL ROBESON

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...
RON PAUL

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...
RON PAUL

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fiel...
PAUL DAVIES

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.
RAND PAUL

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...
RAND PAUL

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tr...
PAUL FEIG

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.
PAUL DANO

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.
PAUL HARRIS

Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with B...
PAUL GIAMATTI

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. wi...
RAND PAUL

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared...
PAUL JOHNSON

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in sm...
PAUL HAWKEN

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American...
RAND PAUL

I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel ...
PAUL ENGLE

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx...
PAUL FARMER

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife,...
PAUL GASCOIGNE

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,...
PAUL FARMER

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICœUR

Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, ab...
PAUL GREENGRASS

Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ...
PAUL RUDNICK

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little mo...
PAUL THEROUX

Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't ...
PAUL MCGANN

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a ...
PAUL NURSE

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER

I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER

They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how t...
PAUL MANAFORT

What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.
PAUL MANAFORT

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of...
PAUL WATSON

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.
PAUL SCHERER

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a t...
PAUL VALERY

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
PAUL VALERY

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the at...
PAUL VALERY

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
PAUL VALERY

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
PAUL VALERY

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other...
PAUL VALERY

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
PAUL VALERY

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

My family is delighted every time I cook maitake. Our taste buds awaken in anticipation of its rich,...
PAUL STAMETS

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilariou...
PAUL RUDD

Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in ...
RAND PAUL

The building block of every community is family.
PAUL SINGER

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of ma...
RON PAUL

The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the p...
PAUL HARDING

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn&...
PAUL MCCARTNEY

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w...
PAUL RYAN

I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can'...
PAUL KEATING

Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want ...
PAUL PROVENZA

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task a...
PAUL GRAHAM

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll pla...
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Neth...
PAUL THEROUX

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting e...
PAUL FEIG

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.
PAUL O'GRADY

I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedica...
PAUL MERTON

There's something magical about film, it's the ultimate for me, because it's kind of per...
PAUL MERTON

If you look on the fungal genome as being soldier candidates protecting the U.S. as our host defense...
PAUL STAMETS

The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing hi...
PAUL MANAFORT

Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media ...
PAUL MANAFORT

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I&...
PAUL RYAN

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. Pe...
PAUL RYAN

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew...
PAUL FARMER

These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in tea...
PAUL CELLUCCI

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.

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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

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