Quote of the Day: Kasimir Malevich

Black Square, 1915, Oil on Canvas by Malevich

Kasimir Malevich is a Russian artist who has a very interesting outlook on life. In the excerpt below he describes his idea of how everyone plays a role in life and we get so carried away with our roles that we never have the opportunity to explore our true nonobjective self.

"A bishop is nothing but an actor who seeks with words and gestures, on an appropriately "dressed" stage, to convey a religious feeling, or rather the reflection of a feeling in religious form. 

The office clerk, the blacksmith, the soldier, the accountant, the general...these are all characters out of one stage play or another, portrayed by various people, who become so carried away that they confuse the play and their parts in it with life itself. 

We almost never get to see the actual human face and if we ask someone who he is, he answers, "an engineer," "a farmer," etc., or, in other words, he gives the title of the role played by him in one or another effective drama." 

- KASIMIR MALEVICH, “NON-OBJECTIVE ART AND SUPREMATISM” (1919)