Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Paul Klee

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Topic

Color Art

Speaker

Paul Klee

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

Switzerland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Klee, Paul. Quoted in Klee, written by Susanna Partsch. Taschen, 2015. Originally a diary entry, 16 Apr. 1914.

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A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

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Another quote about Art

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Susan Sontag

Freak Show

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Susan Sontag
Source
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Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

Another quote originally in German

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

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Source
Siddhartha
Language
German
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

Current Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.