Paul Klee

"Art does not reproduce what is visible, but makes things visible." Paul Klee

"He set up rules for himself in his diary, adding principles that influenced his later work. His aim was not the representation of outer reality. Rather, the aim was for association and imagination to give rise to the emergence of the picture from the first layers of paints applied to the canvas.
He remembered how, when he was nine, he would trance with his finger the patterns on the marble tables in his Uncle's restaurant until he could recognize shapes and figures. Klee attached great importance to this boyish habit. In his pictures he wanted to reconstruct generally valid laws with the means of painting."
(Klee by Susanna Partsch, Taschen 1993)

"Just as a magician performs the miraculous with objects of utter familiarity, such as cards, handkerchiefs, coins, rabbits, so Paul Klee uses the familiar object in unfamiliar relationships to materialize the unknown."
(Paul Klee - Pedagogical Sketchbook - Faber and Faber 1953)