Kazimir Malevich

When the habit of thought of the artist and the painter was to draw inspiration from the little houses, flowers, or the anecdotes of nature, the artist never thought of creating new forms. The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, royal infant.

I have transformed myself in the zero of form and dragged myself out of the rubbish of academic art.

Art no longer wants to serve the state and religion, it no longer wants to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to be itself.

I have ripped through the blue shade of the limitations of color, and come out into the white. Follow me, comrade aviators, sail into the chasm—I have set up the semaphores of Suprematism. I have conquered the lining of the sky, torn it down, and, having placed a bag of colors in it, tied it with a knot. Sail forth! The white, free chasm, infinity is before us.

The artist is always a creator, and not a reproducer. He is a creator of new forms and new relationships.

The Suprematist square and the forms of the new world will open up new possibilities for the creation of new forms of life.

Only with the disappearance of a habit of mind which sees in pictures little corners of nature, Madonnas and shameless Venuses, shall we witness a purely artistic work.

The black square on the white field was the first form in which non-objective feeling came to be expressed. The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

I have destroyed the ring of the horizon and escaped from the circle of objects, from the horizon-ring that imprisons the artist and the forms of nature.

The Suprematist canvas is not a surface with a picture on it, but a living, three-dimensional body.

The artist is a free creator, but not a free reproducer.

The square is the zero of form, and in it everything is contained.

The new art is the art of pure feeling, of pure creation.

Suprematism is the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

I have come to the conclusion that the world is an illusion, and that only pure feeling is real.

The object in itself is meaningless. The object is only a means to an end.

The artist must be free to create new forms, new relationships, new worlds.

The new art is the art of the future, the art of the new man.

The square is the face of the new art. It is the first step of pure creation.

The artist is a prophet, a seer, a creator of new worlds.