Thoughts of Klee

• About this book
• Volume 1
• Chapter 1. Preamble
• Mirror
• Crust
• Movement
• Chapter 2. Infinity
• Center
• Potential movement
• Natural and artificial
• Chaos
• Gradation
• Tiers of choices
• Increase and decrease
• Chapter 3. Duality
• Opposites
• Artistic creation
• Gestalt
• Concept
• Chapter 4. Motion
• Seed
• Contrasts
• Growth
• Point, line, area, space
• Pen techniques
• Progression
• Circle, square, triangle
• Parallels
• Essence and appearance
• Space
• Chapter 5. Orientation
• Entering the bounded plane
• Senses
• Forces
• Illusion
• Mystery of depth
• Bridges
• Endotopic, exotopic
• Mirror
• The unique
• Chapter 6. Essences
• Function
• Creation
• Living seed
• In nature
• Creating form
• Studying nature
• Chapter 7. Experiments
• Intuition and science
• Genius
• Irregularity
• Freedom
• Painting light
• Chapter 8. Creativity
• Seeing
• Spacial energies
• Movement
• Unseen truths
• A man sails a boat
• An apple tree blossoms
• A woman sleeps
• Universal
• Chapter 9. Dimensions
• Language
• Process
• Formal elements
• Associations
• Freedom
• Primordial
• Chapter 10. Theory
• Construction
• Analysis
• Spirit
• Knowledge and the means
• A line
• Chaos or order
• Violin
• Chapter 11. Orientations
• Companions
• A body
• Perspective
• Logical deviations
• Eye level
• Synthesis
• Deviations
• Essence and appearance
• Viewpoint
• Arabian city
• Chapter 12. Identity
• The “I”
• Time loop
• Forming
• Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
• Working out a way
• Depth perception
• Having a common center
• Chapter 13. Tensions
• Grazing
• Aspects of freedom
• Tightrope walker
• Asymmetrical balance
• Centers of gravity
• Self-portrait
• Stone arches
• A man standing
• Weight
• Chapter 14. Structure
• Strobe
• Lengths and weights
• Chessboard
• Identity
• Tessellation
• Not woven
• Each one is different
• Rhythm
• Chapter 15. Shapes
• Animals in mountains
• Flowers in a wheatfield
• Jeweled monster
• Surfaces suggest solids
• Color perception test
• Landscape with trees
• Sailboats
• City by the water
• Strokes
• Musical theme
• Hieroglyphics
• Glance
• Complementarity
• Chapter 16. Development
• Incomplete
• Polyphony
• Tower
• Duet
• Relations
• Cliffs
• Windows
• Scene
• Little fir tree
• Memory
• Calamity
• Clouds
• Realms
• Realm of plants
• Uniformitarianism
• Nature and the individual
• Peaks and caverns
• Boundaries
• Supporting structures
• Projections
• Chapter 17. Organic movement
• Thematic development
• Swimming
• Opposites
• Structure
• Pathology
• Motors
• Lines
• Nile waters
• Chapter 18. Change
• Creation
• Potential
• Tripartite organism
• Flora
• Growth patterns
• Autonomic responses
• Bricklaying
• Gradual perception
• Landscape
• Collision
• Lightning
• Chapter 19. Succession
• Contrasts
• Sails after a storm
• Polyphony
• Receptive process
• Flowers
• Fear
• Figure
• Balance
• Pendulum
• Tension
• Inscription
• Curves
• Water cycle
• Chapter 20. Synthesis
• History of weapons
• Lost
• Bird at the window of a cell
• Arrow
• Physics
• Spirals
• Fleeing woman looks back
• Aflame
• Shattered key
• Chapter 21. Articulation
• Willing coherence
• Synthesis
• Shifting opposites
• Color spaces
• Dimensions
• Three fishermen
• Leap day
• Unnatural
• Middle ground
• Arrogance
• Unhappy balance
• Child’s game
• Chapter 22. Unity
• Under your skin
• Relationship
• Fashion
• Relic
• Broken toy
• Calligram
• Island woman
• Under its cloak
• Body parts
• Witches
• Abstract playground
• Chapter 23. Color
• Stained glass
• Rainbow
• Complementary colors
• All that glitters
• Unstill life
• Principle
• Totality
• Farm fields
• Harmony
• Volume 2
• Chapter 1. Chaos and cosmos
• Nature
• Infinities
• Gravity and energy
• Movement
• Relativity
• Balance
• Impressive and constructive methods
• Figuration
• Essence
• Chapter 2. Organic form
• The snail
• The apple
• The violin
• The umbrella
• Conic sections
• A leaf
• Knowing
• Chapter 3. Composition
• Draw a leaf
• Draw a tree
• Lines of force
• Irregularity
• Line and plane
• Edges
• Arithmetic sequences
• Chapter 4. Inner necessity
• Seed
• Germination
• Seedling
• Draw an apple
• Becoming a living thing
• Chapter 5. Articulation of matter
• Ornamentation
• Vibratory impulse
• Waves
• Sand on a beach
• Tiny shelters
• Vibrations
• Unscrolling
• Cell function
• Organs
• Chapter 6. Proportions
• Creativity
• Resonance
• Broken resonances
• Structure
• Energy
• Complexity
• Projection
• Over time
• Geometric construction
• Dimensions
• Water cycle
• Scopes
• Ancient waters
• Hidden structures
• Gifts of an angel
• In a cycle
• Hearts
• Asleep
• Chapter 7. Aggregation
• Forest clearing
• Roots and branches
• Seed
• Fall color
• Flower
• Fruit
• Cross-sections
• Strange species
• Ooids
• Time and plants
• Roots
• Modes
• Interwoven patches
• Cut flower
• Vase
• Garden after a storm
• Chapter 8. Animation
• Feeling
• Character
• Parts in relation to the whole
• Dog eats cat
• Mutual affection
• Product
• Degrees of movement
• Empathy
• Omphalocentric
• Lust
• Motivation
• Paranoia
• Biological processes
• Figure
• Bad dreams
• Diamonia
• Promises
• Body language
• Creator
• Mask
• Hummingbird
• Chapter 9. Identity
• Identity
• Chorale
• Stars
• Fish on a fish platter
• Scales
• Still life with crosses
• Collage
• Succession
• Caterpillar
• Medieval city
• Bridges
• Impregnable
• Self-portrait
• Côte de Provence
• Lookout
• Hedges and gardens
• Chapter 10. Extremes
• Bottom
• Scattered houses
• Individual
• Princess of Araby
• Chapter 11. Forms
• Waves
• Complex number
• Interpretation
• City gardens
• Quilt palace
• Painted archways
• Portal
• Perspectives
• Letters
• Hall for singers
• Chapter 12. Dimensions
• Marginalia
• Crows
• Growth on stone
• Theater of the strange
• Connected
• Wings
• Carnival in the mountains
• Growth
• Flames
• Ship at port
• Interwoven
• Flora
• Itch
• Divining
• Puppet workshop
• Hanging on
• Orchestra
• Juggling
• Mannequin with props
• Dimensions
• Ahead
• Dancer
• Internal vision
• Chapter 13. Resonance
• Mother of pearl
• Inside the snail
• Monument
• Lines
• Chapter 14. Pictorial means
• Line
• Fortifications
• Points
• In the dark
• Coast
• Sand and sunsets
• Resetting normal
• Gradual autumn
• Power
• North Sea
• Contrast
• Magic act
• Mountain castle
• Mosaic
• Garden of sepia and gray
• Vista
• Blitz
• Boundary
• Composition
• Crystals
• Inverse logic
• Triangular drums
• Unravelling
• From stone
• Interrupting
• Contrasts
• Progress
• Ancient fabric
• Analogs
• Plan for a castle
• Swimming
• Nuances
• Scales
• Paths
• Distinguishable
• Juxtapositions
• Winter contrasts
• Invention
• Body parts
• Choreography
• Not unexpected
• House
• Briar root
• Nocturnal
• “Done!”