Artist Quotes by Kazimir Malevich

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and…

— Kazimir Malevich

“I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea”

— Kazimir Malevich

For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The…

— Kazimir Malevich

I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that…

— Kazimir Malevich

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

— Kazimir Malevich

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that…

— Kazimir Malevich

There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our…

— Kazimir Malevich

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind…

— Kazimir Malevich

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a…

— Kazimir Malevich

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from…

— Kazimir Malevich

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

— Kazimir Malevich

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.

— Kazimir Malevich

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many…

— Kazimir Malevich