"Only the absence of honesty and of a true love of art provides some artists with the affrontery to live on stale cans of artistic economics stocked up for years, and, year in year out, until they are fifty, to mutter about what they had first started to talk about when they were twenty."
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Olga Rozanova
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova (22 June 1886 – 7 November 1918, Moscow) was a Russian artist in the styles of Suprematism, Neo-Primitivism, and Cubo-Futurism. In 1916 she married the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh and joined the group of Russian avant-garde artists Supremus, led by Kazimir Malevich.
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