Barnett Newman Quotes:
Ocupation: Artist
Life: January 29, 1905 - July 4, 1970
Birthday: January 29
Death: July 4
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Topics: Painting, Speak, Expressionism, Expressive
Painting, like passion, is a living voice.
source: - Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.179, Univ of California Press
source: - Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.281, Univ of California Press
Topics: Might, Impossible, Wells
Topics: Black And White, Discovery, Self
From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,
source: - Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.189, Univ of California Press
source: - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Barnett Newman, Lawrence Alloway (1966). “Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani”
source: - Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press
Topics: Dream, Communication, Men, Consonants, Helplessness
source: - Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.259, Univ of California Press
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
source: - "Manifesto" by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in New York Times, June 13, 1943.
source: - Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
Topics: Art, Bird, Ornithology, Aesthetics
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
source: - "Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews".
Topics: Art, Desire, Modern, Modern Art
