Since Klee in every connection kept going back to the basic elements, it was natural for him to exploit the inner unity that links painting, poetry, and music. When Klee was in the Near East or conjured it up in his Tunisian and Egyptian pictures, the very spirit of the Near East was in him, the alliance between gaiety and seriousness, the love of metaphor. With all this, Klee aimed not only at the most comprehensive formula, but also at the most exact one. Only thus can we account for the way he labored over those thousands of drawings, untill he had found exactly the right solution to a given problem. He was tireless and unshakable, always surpassing himself with new exploits. If, at the end, he skipped a phase or two, this was only in order to be entirely in harmony with death.引自 Paul Klee by Will Grohmann