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American painter and illustrator (b. 1905), Birth: 29-1-1905, Death: 4-7-1970 Barnett Newman Quotes
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Barnett Newman

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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.
Barnett Newman

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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
Barnett Newman

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

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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
Barnett Newman

Similar Authors: Winston Churchill Francis Bacon John Ruskin Leonardo da Vinci William Blake Henry Miller Pablo Picasso Vincent Van Gogh Andy Warhol Alan Moore Quentin Crisp David Hockney Henri Matisse Samuel Richardson Maurice Sendak
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
Barnett Newman

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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

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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Barnett Newman

Quote Topics by Barnett Newman: Men Art Painting Ornithology Passion Artist World Bird Voice Desire Names Way Series Communication Painter Emotion Bumps Space Might Black And White Expression Garden Self Problem Modern Impact Certain Feelings Felt Dream
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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 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.
Barnett Newman

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The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
Barnett Newman

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

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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

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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.
Barnett Newman

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We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
Barnett Newman

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Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
Barnett Newman

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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
Barnett Newman

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

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

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From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.
Barnett Newman