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… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
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… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
