Kazimir Malevich

"A painted surface is a real, living form."

"Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling."

"In 1913, trying desperately to liberate art from the ballast of the representational world, I sought refuge in the form of the square."

"Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him."

"I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit."

"Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes that it can exist, in and for itself, without "things" (that is, the "time-tested well-spring of life")."

"By "Suprematism" I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling."

"Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red."

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