Alexej von Jawlensky

"My friends, the apples that I love for their delightful red, yellow, mauve and green clothing cease to be apples for me when I see them against this or that background, in such or such surroundings.. …"

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

"Perhaps you have heard that Baroness Werefkin died in February. It was a great blow to me. Yes, indeed, sooner or later we have to pay for our mistakes once made. And often so severely."

"From then on I used to go to the Tretyakov Gallery every Sunday, arriving very early and staying there without eating until closing time at three o'clock. It was a tremendous experience for me, like g…"

"So the years passed and I worked a great deal. And then I became ill and although I could still work, despite the fact that my hands became more and more rigid. I could no longer pick up the paintbrus…"

"His pictures remind me of my own in the strength of their expression. I have a passionate love for Nolde and his art."

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

"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."