Occupation: Painter Birth: February 23, 1879 Death: May 15, 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..
In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity..
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 mil….
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed..
I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made ….
I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color..
To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apar….
Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no crea….
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity..
When, in the year 1913, in my desperate attempt to free art from the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture….
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, ev….
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 fir….
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create..
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the contex….
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, "Al….
The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling..
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 ….
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 canno….
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 p….
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its aw….
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….