Artist Quote by Barnett Newman Download Open image “Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.” — Barnett Newman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Bump Bump Painting Bumps Painting Sculpture Sculpture Bump
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor… — Walead Beshty Copy Share Image
I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always place each… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have to show… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
I had no intentions of going into sculpture but found that sculpture was just an extension of drawing. — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying… — John Lennon 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
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
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp 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
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
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead 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
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
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
