Kazimir Malevich
"With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create."
—Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
"Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity."
—Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
"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 (1879-1935)
"Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed."
—Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
"In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity."
—Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
"The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling."
—Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
"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 (1879-1935)
"A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives."
—Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)
"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 (1879-1935)