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)