Art Quote by Kazimir Malevich

“Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element...” quote by Kazimir Malevich — Download Open image

“Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element...”

Kazimir Malevich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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