36 Quotes by Kazimir Malevich

I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea

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

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

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

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

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 use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)

I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.