“What does the artist create? Forms and spaces! How does he create them? In certain chosen proportions... O satire, you plague of intellectuals.”

—  Paul Klee

Quote (1905), # 599, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
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