“The father of the arrow is the thought: how do I expand my reach? Over this river? This lake? That mountain?”

— Paul Klee

IIII.37, The Arrow. p. 54
1921 - 1930, Pedagogical Sketch Book, (1925)

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German Swiss painter 1879–1940

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