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Quotes by Kasimir Malevich - (20 quotes)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Aging category:

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago? (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Colour category:

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Colour category:

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Colour category:

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

Kasimir Malevich - From the Colour category:

I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Composition category:

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Critics category:

When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the critics... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert"... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling... (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Emotion category:

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Form category:

Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a (drawn or painted) face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Masters category:

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Movement category:

There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Painting category:

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

Kasimir Malevich - From the Painting category:

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

Kasimir Malevich - From the Realism category:

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Sincerity category:

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Subject category:

For the Suprematist, the proper means is the one that provides the fullest expression of pure feeling and ignores the habitually accepted object. The object in itself is meaningless to him, and the ideas of the conscious mind are worthless. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Symbols category:

I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk? (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Technique category:

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element... (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Technology category:

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. (Kasimir Malevich)

Kasimir Malevich - From the Universe category:

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it. (Kasimir Malevich)