Kazimir Malevich Quotes

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

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 environment in which it is called forth.

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

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

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

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field, the critics and, along with them, the public sighed: 'Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!'

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.

A painted surface is a real, living form.

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

I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)