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His pictures [of Nolde, which Jawlensky met in 1912] remind me of my own in the strength of their expression. I have a passionate love for Nolde and his art.

— Alexej von Jawlensky

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More quotes by Alexej von Jawlensky

..human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover's passion.

The whole of French art is a matter of seeing Nature as beautiful, very beautiful, in fact. But on the whole this is not enough. You have to create your own Nature – Van Gogh!

This acquaintance [with Marianne Werefkin ] would change my life. I became a friend of hers, of this clever woman gifted with genius.

I am now mainly painting faces and landscapes; I am obsessed day and night by the vision of faces and colours. And the spiritual vision is my mystical world.

My paintings [c. 1907] were aglow with colors and so my soul was contended with them.

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