“From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
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Famous Barnett Newman Quotes
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“Painting, like passion, is a living voice.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
“Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.”
Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews
Source: Barnett Newman, the stations of the cross, lema sabachthani
“The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.”
“Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.”