I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
BARNETT NEWMAN
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.
More Barnett Newman Quotes
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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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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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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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Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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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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