Art Quote by Barnett Newman Download Open image “It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.” — Barnett Newman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Function Spectators Way World
Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it. — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
As artistes, it is as much our job to entertain as to help the audience broaden their horizons. — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate… — Marina Abramovic 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
