Barnett Newman on begining
Barnett Newman18 quotes“From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.”
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman We have lost contact with man’s natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
Barnett NewmanBarnett 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.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman Painting, like passion, is a living voice.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman Any art worthy of its name should address ‘life’, ‘man’, ‘nature’, ‘death’ and ‘tragedy’.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman 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 NewmanBarnett Newman Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
Barnett NewmanBarnett Newman 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 NewmanBarnett Newman 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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
Lord ActonLord Acton Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WellsH. G. Wells I’ve always said, ‘I didn’t have a Plan B in life.’ I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.
Mario AndrettiMario Andretti The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George BurnsGeorge Burns When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.
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Al FrankenAl Franken In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality of human existence.
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