Paul Klee Quotes

I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.

Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.

The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.

The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

And I feel faster than the speeding light.

You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?

One can take a neon tube and simply paint it black on the front. So it would read as a black letter or a line, but it would also read as neon because there would be light coming from behind that black letter.

The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

Light is therefore color.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.