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Quotes "Painting, like passion, is a living voice."

"Aesthetics is for artists what ornithology is for birds."

"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."

"A painter is a choreographer of space."

"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. ...Man's hand traced the stick through the mud to make a line before he learned to throw the stick."




Barnett Newman