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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.

Barnett Newman

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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Art Bird Ornithology
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
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Artist Bird Ornithology
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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Black Discovery Self White
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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Painting Problem Thinking
From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.
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Begining Felt Series
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Art Expression Leaving
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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Impossible might Wells
Painting, like passion, is a living voice.
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Painting Passion Voice
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.
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Fall Garden Men
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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Art Desire Modern
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
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Painting Passion Voice
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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Artist Way World
Any art worthy of its name should address ‘life’, ‘man’, ‘nature’, ‘death’ and ‘tragedy’.
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Art Men Names
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
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Certain Process World
A painter is a choreographer of space.
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Choreographer Painter Space
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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Bumps Painting Sculpture

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