Quotes from Kazimir Malevich

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

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.

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 creative painters.

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

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 ago?

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