Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Alexej von Jawlensky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German artist Alexej von Jawlensky.
Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Alexej von Jawlensky

Alexej Georgewitsch von Jawlensky, surname also spelt as Yavlensky, was a Russian expressionist painter active in Germany. He was a key member of the New Munich Artist's Association, Der Blaue Reiter group and later the Die Blaue Vier.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes — © Alexej von Jawlensky
The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes
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.
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.
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