Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
Kazimir MalevichPainting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
Kazimir MalevichA face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.
Kazimir MalevichI have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.
Kazimir MalevichWhen, 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!'
Kazimir Malevich