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Ask not what the ant can do for you...

2018-05-26 · 3,568 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Ask not what the ant can do for you... — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "By 'Suprematism' I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the o
Ask not what the ant can do for you... — pen and ink drawing

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"By 'Suprematism' I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art. To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling." – Kazimir Malevich, 'The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism' (1915).

"These ambiguities, redundances, and deficiences recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that…

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