"Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to…" — Barnett Newman
"Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds."
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17 Quotes by Barnett Newman
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own…
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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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 prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand…
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What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not…
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The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,
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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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes…
— Peter Vidmar
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and…
— Albert Einstein
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new…
— Oscar Wilde
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I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative…
— Edwin Land
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
— Barnett Newman
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An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful…
— Tim Benton
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Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust…
— Werner Herzog
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The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science…
— Louis Althusser
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I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because…
— Sally Mann
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