Geometric utopia

Kazimir Malevich

"All past and recent painting before Suprematism (as sculpture, verbal art, music) has been subjugated by the shapes of nature, waiting to be liberated, to speak its own language, independent of reason, common sense, logic, philosophy, psychology, laws of causality, and technological changes." 

(Malevich in 'From Cubism to Suprematism', 1915, from Art of the 20th Century, ed. by Jean-Louis Ferrier and Yann Le Pichon, 1999)

"I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white, besides me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity. I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea lies before you."

* Kazimir Malevich, artist quotes on Suprematism, the Russian modern art style:‘Catalogue 10th State Exhibition’, Kasimir Malevich, Moscow, 1919; as quoted in ‘Autocritique, – essays on art and anti-art 1963 – 1987’, Barbara Rose, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, New York, 1988, p. 71 (Russian artist, famous for his writings theory and manifesto ‘From Cubism to Suprematism’ and ‘Cubo-Futurism’; biography facts at the bottom) 

Josef Albers "Homage to the Square" 1961

Josef Albers "Homage to the Square: Guarded" 1952

Josef Albers - Structural Constellation, c. 1950–60, drawing, photograph mounted as transparency.

Anni Albers "Black-White-Red" 1964 (cotton + silk)

Art Problems are problems of human relationship. Note that balance, proportion, harmony [and] coordination are tasks of our daily life, as are also activity, intensity, economy and unity. And learn that behavior results in form--and, reciprocally, form influences behavior.

(A quote by Josef Albers from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation website) 

Buckminster Fuller:

R. Buckminster Fuller "Montreal Biosphere" 1967

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” 

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” 

“Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”  R. Buckminster Fuller