Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter
Diary entry (December 1904), # 583, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918; University of California Press, 1968
1903 - 1910
“Nor is it any part of my thesis to maintain that it [the detective story] is a vital and significant form of art. There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.”
essay, first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November, 1945)
The Simple Art of Murder (1950)
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