[PW] Paul Klee quotation

[Shapiro, Fred]

The Yale Book of Quotations has the following:

[Of drawing:]  An active line on a walk, moving freely without a goal.  A walk for a walk's sake.
Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook ch. 1 (1925)

Fred Shapiro


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From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org [project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Dan [dan8bks at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:13 AM
To: Project Wombat
Subject: [PW] Paul Klee quotation

   A library patron is trying to verify the provenance and locate the source or origin of a quotation attributed to artist Paul Klee, who described drawing as taking a line for a walk.

     The websites listed below, searched by the patron, all allude to this quotation, but do not cite the publication or the precise circumstances in which Klee actually made (or wrote) this statement, whether while he was teaching at the Bauhaus,  etc.

      Thanks for your help.

  Dan


  http://www.goldenessays.com/free_essays/1/art/paul-klee.shtml
  http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/p5/art/linewalk.html
  http://sarajofrieden.blogspot.com/2007/10/take-line-for-walk.html
  http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673600028312
  http://www.alfredo-haeberli.com/products/take-a-line/1.html
  http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/journeys/
  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,636047,00.html



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