“I have not invented anything, only the night I have sensed, and in it the new which I called Suprematism.”

—  Kazimir Malevich

Quoted in Dokumente zum Verständnis der modernen Malerei, Walter Hess, (Hamburg, 1956), p. 98
1921 - 1930

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