Jawlensky Quotes & Sayings

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. — Cher

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises — Diane Arbus

Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back. — Richard Siken

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading. — Jencarlos Canela

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

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

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers. — Aimee Bender

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation. — Patrick O'Brian

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach. — Charles Spurgeon