"What is the explanation of the seemingly insane……" — Barnett 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."
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Barnett Newman
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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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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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