Barnett Newman quotes
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“I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.”
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“Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.”
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“We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.”
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“Painting, like passion, is a living voice.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.179, Univ of California Press
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“Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.”
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“I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.281, Univ of California Press
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“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.”
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“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.”
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“From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.189, Univ of California Press
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“Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.”
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“Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.”
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“The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.”
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“What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Barnett Newman, Lawrence Alloway (1966). “Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani”
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“Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press
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“The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.259, Univ of California Press
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“It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : "Manifesto" by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in New York Times, June 13, 1943.
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“I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.”
-- Barnett NewmanSource : Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.21, Univ of California Press
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“Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.”
-- Barnett Newman
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