Kazimir Malevich Quotes

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

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• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Culture
  • Action
  • Celebrity

• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

  Kajol
  • God
  • Hero
  • Mistakes

• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Tired
  • Articles
  • Malicious

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Think
  • Say

• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • Person
  • Certainly

• There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • People
  • Energy
  • Decisions

• When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Help

• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Thinking
  • Reaction
  • Fragrance

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • She
  • Advice

• I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Feels
  • Knows
  • Faces

• A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Art
  • Path
  • Eating

• Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

  

  Charles Saatchi
  • Art
  • Pretty

• A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.

  

  Deborah Turbeville
  • Art
  • Girl
  • Focus

• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• 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
  • Art