“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.”

— Paul Klee

As quoted in the film Der Bauhaus, produced by TV-Rechte in Germany (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications

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German Swiss painter 1879–1940

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