“The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail.”
Diary entry (Munich, 1909), # 857, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968, p. 236
1903 - 1910
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.
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