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Quote by Kazimir Malevich
In my desperate struggle to free art from the ballast of the objective world I fled to the form of the Square.
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The speaker describes trying to free art from the weight of the visible, objective world. The “Square” represents a move toward pure form: something defined by shape rather than by depicting ordinary objects. The wording presents this as a desperate struggle, not a casual preference, and suggests that abstraction offered the clearest escape from representation.
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