Kazimir Malevich Quotes

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• By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. Art
• Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. Always Killed
• I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color. Blue
• I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. Beside
• A painted surface is a real, living form. Form
• The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living,… Art
• To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the… Apart
• Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. Anecdote
• Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. Aesthetic
• The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling. Beyond
• In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity. Art
• Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! Background
• 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 thousands… Ago
• I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed… Beaten
• 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 pure… Bits
• When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the… All
• The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which… Appearance
• Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a… Alive
• I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… Actively
• There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes… Art

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