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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
A painter is a choreographer of space.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Painting, like passion, is a living voice.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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By AnonymBarnett Newman
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
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By AnonymBarnett 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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By AnonymBarnett Newman
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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