Alexej Jawlensky Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio. — Glenn Gould

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed. — Jack Kornfield

The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat. — Douglas Adams

And you came over to make sure I was all right, is that what you're telling me? You cam over here with your shotgun to protect me from my scarecrow?"
"I had to," Garnett said, spreading his hands, throwing himself on her mercy. " I didn't care for the way Buddy was looking at you in your short pants. — Barbara Kingsolver

Nobody rides trains anymore! — Sharon M. Draper

Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. — Edward Bernays

I find it insane to say, "Work hard," when the harder you work, the more you pay in taxes ... Crazy. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes — Alexej Von Jawlensky

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. — William Butler Yeats

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting. — Rainbow Rowell

My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art. — Alexej Von Jawlensky

I'd seen it happen, how hard it was to get out. Every year, one or two kids would visit from college for a long October weekend and simply never leave. They came home, cocooned themselves in the familiar radius of the town limits, and never broke free again. Years later, you'd see them working in the kitchen at the pizza place, or sitting at the bar in the East Bank Tavern. Shoulders hunched, jaw set, skin slack. And in the waning light of their eyes, the barest sensation that once upon a time, they been somewhere else ... or maybe it was only a dream. — Kat Rosenfield

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. — Alexej Von Jawlensky

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre. — Tyler Cowen

Women in such anti-abortion groups are more likely to be deprived of birth control and so to need an abortion. They — Gloria Steinem

Take into account all possible obstacles and circumstances that may prevent you from achieving your goal, and plan how you will overcome them. — Anonymous