Malevich Square Quotes & Sayings

If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing — Craig Groeschel

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, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art. — Kazimir Malevich

When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square ... the critics ... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert" ... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling ... — Kazimir Malevich

I am a spinner of yarns; hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye. — Barry Tyrrell

Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert ... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! — Kazimir Malevich

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

Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas. — John Berger

You could tell those two had been married by the way that she ignored him. — Lindsey Davis

The hero, the villain, or modern tragic character. A modern Achilles who inflicts his own arrow. "The Wings of the Seraph — Jeffrey LeBlanc

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. — Kazimir Malevich

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market. — James Chanos

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless. — Jonas Mekas