A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives..

A painted surface is a real, living form..

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 ….

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed..

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling..

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its aw….

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….

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….

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….

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity..

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no crea….

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the contex….

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create..

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..

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apar….

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal..

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….

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..

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color..

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….

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….