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— Alexej von Jawlensky"I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul."
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[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly. ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
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