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Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Book by Barnett Newman · 8 quotes · Painting, Passion, Voice

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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.”