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…

- Kazimir Malevich

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

- Kazimir Malevich

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…

- Kazimir Malevich

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

- Kazimir Malevich

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

- Kazimir Malevich

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

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

- Kazimir Malevich

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

- 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