The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
BARNETT NEWMANPainting, like passion, is a living voice.
More Barnett Newman Quotes
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Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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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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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
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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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Painting, like passion, is a living voice.
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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.
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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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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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Any art worthy of its name should address ‘life’, ‘man’, ‘nature’, ‘death’ and ‘tragedy’.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.
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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.
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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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