Paul Klee's Death

The painter Paul Klee died at the age of 60. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

German-Swiss painter whose more than 10,000 works included “Fish Magic,” “Ranks,” and “Twittering Machine.” He was influenced by expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and orientalism.

He was the son of a music teacher and a singer and discovered his own talent for the violin while studying at the Municipal Music School. He married pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906; their son, Felix Paul, was born in 1907.

Quotes

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A line is a dot that went for a walk.

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

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

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In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.