“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ”
“One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.”
“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”
“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.”
“One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.”
“The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.”