Kazimir Malevich

“In the year 1913, trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, I took refuge in the form of the square.”

“Suprematism is the rediscovery of pure art that, in the course of time, had become obscured by the accumulation of 'things'.”

“Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without 'things'.”

“By 'Suprematism' I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling.”

“Color and texture in painting are ends in themselves.”

“The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art.”

“The black square on the white field was the first form in which non-objective feeling came to be expressed. The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.”

“I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, and come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.”

“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.”

“A painter's cubism is an indicator of his revolution.”

“I have transformed myself in the zero of form and dragged myself out of the rubbish-filled pool of Academic Art.”