Kazimir Malevich Quotes

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it.

Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Art matters.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

For many artists and critics, beauty is a discredited idea. It denotes the saccharine sylvan scenes and cheesy melodies that appealed to Granny.

Art is truth.

Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and art is supposed to last.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.