Alexej von Jawlensky Quotes

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Figuratively speaking, it was like this: In my heart I felt as if there were an organ, which I had to sound. And nature, which I saw before me, only prompted me. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it sound.. .They are songs without words.

Alexej von Jawlensky

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• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Political

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

  

  Becky G
  • Heart
  • Kid
  • Keep

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Beach

• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Mind
  • May
  • Soul

• If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Dog

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Heart
  • Learning
  • Gentleman

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

• Fame and fortune is a magnet.It can pull you far away from homeWith a dream in your heart you're never alone.Dreams turn into dust and blow awayAnd there you are without a friend

  

  Hal David
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• There's something about a pious man such as he. He will cheerfully cut your throat if it suits him, but he will hesitate to endanger the welfare of your immaterial and problematical soul.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Soul

• Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Soul
  • Books
  • Windows

• Yeah, apparently chasing a bus uses different muscles than sitting and eating.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Different
  • Bus
  • Muscles

• The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Best

• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

  

  Ouida
  • Kind
  • Beauty
  • Cruel

• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. Figuratively speaking, it was like this: In my heart I felt as if there were an organ, which I had to sound. And nature, which I saw before me, only prompted me. And that was a key that unlocked this organ and made it sound.. .They are songs without words.

  

  Alexej von Jawlensky
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Paint