"Sculpture is what you bump into when you……" — Barnett Newman
"Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting."
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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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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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Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
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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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