A painted surface is a real, living form.

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

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

A painted surface is a real, living 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, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art.

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

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.