"I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dvrelling place is as much among the (Jeâd as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than ustial, but stili not close enough. Do I radiate warmth? Coolness? There is no talk of such things when you get beyond white heat. The further away I am, the more pious I am. Here and now I sometimes delight in the misfortunes of others. There are shades of difference for the one cause. The clerics are just not pious enough to see it. And the scribes, they take just atiny bit of offence.'"
These words by Paul Klee (1879-1940) briefly characterize the artist and the man,.- as he wanted to be seen. They could almost be called his manifesto.