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Klee cautions that It is rather the work of transmutation for which the artist is both the agent and the vessel:
"Nobody would affirm that the tree grows its crown in the image of its root. Between above and below can be no mirrored reflection. It is obvious that different functions expanding in different elements must produce divergences.
[...] And yet, standing at his appointed place, the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from the depths. He neither serves nor rules — he transmits."
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In a 1924 lecture about the creative process, German artist Paul Klee has insightfully intersected the canon of sylvan metaphors with the canon of theories of creativity.
"The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, unobtrusively found his way...
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Trees have enchantment and self-clarification to artists.
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” wrote William Blake.
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