A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

In art there is a need for truth, not sincerity.

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world of will and idea. Is the milk bottle the symbol of milk?

Prayer leads to peace.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!

There's always a price for what you want.

I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride yourself on having your own distinct sound.