"It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest."

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Source : "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.

Paul Klee

#Reality Quotes #Difficulty Quotes #Smallest Quotes

“I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. [Lat., Fungar vice cotis, acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet, exsors ipsi secandi.]”
“When I'm on the road, a lot of the times - even though people don't really think it - we walk on heels and the runways are really long! My legs get a pretty good workout just from being on the runway.”
“I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.”
“I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.”
“And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.”
“Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!”
“Nothing adventured, nothing attained”
“Donâ€™t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

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