From Paul Klee's Journal, November 27, 1923:
"The ultimate flowering of ornament is precisely such an end, arising on the basis of what is supposed to have happened, which one should not tackle directly, in my searching view of form-production. Instead, it is an end one should allow to grow, like the natural process, as the result of form-determining activities. Here too is is the act of forming rather than the form itself, form in the process of growth, as genesis, rather than as the ultimate appearance."
From Klee’s ‘The Nature of Nature’":
"Creative power is ineffable. It remains ultimately mysterious. And every mystery affects us deeply. We are ourselves charged with this power, down to our subtlest parts. We may not be able to utter its essence, but we can move towards its source, insofar as at all possible. In any event, it is up to us to manifest this power in its functions, just as it becomes manifest within ourselves."