Kazimir Malevich > Quotes

“A painted surface is a real, living form.”
― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.”
― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“In 1913, trying desperately to liberate art from the ballast of the representational world, I sought refuge in the form of the square.”
― Kasimir Malevich

“Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him.”
― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.”
― Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, Essays on art

“Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without "things" (that is, the "time-tested well-spring of life").”
― Kasimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism

“By "Suprematism" I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.”
― Kasimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism

“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”
― Kazimir Severinovich 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

“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, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.”
― Kasimir Malevich

“To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.”
― Kazimir Malevich