Kazimir Malevich famous quotes

03-28-2025

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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Men #Skulls #Infinity
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Mean #Artist #Technology
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Needs #Dull
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Feelings #World #Environment
By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Mean #Creative
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?
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Years #Giving
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

#Squares #White #Black
A painted surface is a real, living form.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Real #Form #Surface
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Lying #Color #Sea
I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Blue #Color #Shade
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Independent #Feelings #Essentials
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...
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Squares #Objectivity
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

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

#White #Blue #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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Squares #Faces
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Color #Essence #Painting
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?
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Lying #Taken #Ideas
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...
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Technique #Elements
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Mean #Expression #Ideas
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Zero #Painting #Creation
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Eye #Movement
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.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Artist #Squares #Trying
Every real form is a world. And any plastic surface is more alive than a face from which stares a pair of eyes and a smile.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Real #Eye #Alive
In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Art #Needs #Sincerity
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Squares #White #Feelings
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Goal #Sides #Painting
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.
-- Kazimir Malevich

#Creative #Zoologist #Anecdotes

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