No more "likenesses of reality", no idealistic images -- nothing but a desert
pervades everything! Even I was gripped by a kind of timidity bordering on fear
when it came to leaving "the world of will and idea," in which I had lived and worked
and in the reality of which I had believed. But a blissful sense of liberating
nonobjectivity drew me forth into the "desert", where nothing is real except feeling...
and so feeling became the substance of my life.
This was no "empty square" which I had exhibited but rather the feeling of nonobjectivity.
I realized the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood
the falsity of the world of will and idea. Is a milk bottle, then, the symbol of milk?
Suprematism is the rediscovery of pure art which, in the course of time,
had become obscured by the accumulation of "things".
The nature and meaning of artistic creation continue to be misunderstood,
as does the nature of creative work in general, because feeling, after all,
is always and everywhere the one and only source of every creation.
The emotions which are kindled in the human being are stronger than the human being itself...
they must at all costs find an outlet -- they must take on the overt form --
they must be communicated or put to work.
The black square on the white field was the first form in which nonobjective
feeling came to be expressed.
The square = feeling, the white field=the void beyond this feeling.
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