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

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.

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

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

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.

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