Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition auctioned by Christies, New York, May 2018.
Kazimir Malevich

Art Quotes

To create means to live forever and create newer and newer things.
~ Kazimir Malevich.

The futurists displayed enormous strength, of will in destroying the habit of the old mind.
~ Kazimir Malevich.

Forms must be given life and the right to individual existence.
~ Kazimir Malevich.

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

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

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.

Each form is free and individual.
Each form is a world.
Any painterly surface is more alive than any face from which a pair of eyes and a smile protrude.
~ Kazimir Malevich. The New Painterly Realism, 1915.

I am free only when—by means of critical and philosophical substantiation—my will can extract a substantiation of new phenomena from what already exists.
~ Kazimir Malevich.

A painted surface is a real, living form.
~ Kazimir Malevich.