Paul Klee

I have always loved much of the art of Paul Klee and am looking forward to an upcoming show of his work at  Tate Modern from 16th October to 9th March. In an insightful article in Tate magazine this issue, Klee's wonderful self-written words for his tombstone are quoted:

I cannot be grasped in the here and now
For I live just as well with the dead
As with the unborn
Somewhat closer to the heart
Of creation than usual
But far from close enough.

or in another translation from the German, on Wikipedia:

I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is as much among the dead,
As the yet unborn,
Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
But still not close enough

The writer Nicholas Fox Weber says that Klee 'after all, was as at home with cats as with people. When he made his daily walks through the park, he felt himself to be part of the entire cosmos - somehow at one with the butterflies and worms, with the plants as well as the clouds.'