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Barnett Newman Art Quotes - (11 quotes)

Barnett Newman - From the Artists category:

Aesthetics is for artists what ornithology is for birds. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Discovery category:

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Emotion category:

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Expression category:

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Impossibilities category:

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Individuality category:

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. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Meaning category:

Any art worthy of its name should address life, man, nature, death and tragedy. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Modernism category:

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Passion category:

Painting, like passion, is a living voice. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Sculpture category:

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting. (Barnett Newman)

Barnett Newman - From the Space category:

A painter is a choreographer of space. (Barnett Newman)

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