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| "Cubism is like perfume...in front of you, behind you, to the sides. The scent is everywhere, yet you don't know where it comes from." |
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| "Talking about what he called the heroism of modern life," "A painter has yet to capture how grand we are in our necktie and varnished boots." |
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| "I see nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone..." |
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| "I want to put art back to the service of the mind." |
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| "Under Suprematism I understand 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, such as, quite apart from the environment in |
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| "Cubism is a whole new language." |
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| "Women irritate me. I painted that irritation." |
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| "I try to show the processional aspects of modern life (as great and eternal as the art in the museums)." |
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| "Pure psychic automatism, by which one intends to express verbally, in writing, or by any other method, the real functioning of the mind. Dictation by thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, and beyond any aesthetic or moral preoccupa |
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| "What I dream of is an art of balance, or purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to r |
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| "We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched with a new form of beauty, the beauty of speed. A race-automobile...which seems to rush over the exploding power is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace...We glorify war---the only tru |
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| "What is real...not the outward form, but the idea, the essence of things." |
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| "The breaking up of the soulless-material life of the nineteenth century; that is, the falling down of the material supports which were thought to be the only firm ones, the decay and dissolution of the individual parts," "The building up of the psychic-s |
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| "A work of art must be tragic and timeless." |
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| I threw the bottle rack and urinal in their face as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty." |
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| "Cezanne is the father of us all." |
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| "To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearances of my time as I see them---in a word, to create a living art---this has been my aim...The art of painting can consist only on the representation of objects visible and tangible to the painter...a |
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| "The self, terrible and constant, is for me the subject matter of painting." |
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| "Painting has evolved to a state of flatness." |
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| "On the floor I am more at ease...This way I can...literally be in the painting. When I am in the painting I am not aware of what I am doing...there is pure harmony." |
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| "When I paint I am nature." |
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| "A picture---before being a war horse, a female nude, or some anecdote---is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a particular order." |
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| "The form is the outer expression of the inner content." |
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