Kazimir Malevich Quotes

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

Kazimir Malevich

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• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Character
  • American

• I've always been a rough kid.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Rough

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Change
  • Living
  • Iron

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Relationship
  • Single
  • Balance

• I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rock

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • History
  • Failure

• All gardening is landscape painting.

  

  William Kent
  • Painting
  • Beauty
  • Gardening

• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  

  Barbara Ann Kipfer
  • Purpose
  • Painting
  • Landscape

• About Van Gogh.. a man who is on fire, a torch. His sincerity is absolute. His best painting is the grain field where he kills himself. There we find ourselves at the border of the art of painting. We cannot go further.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Fire
  • Painting
  • Sincerity

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

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Painting
  • Aesthetic