Barnett Newman
Artist
1905-01-29 – 1970-07-04
American artist associated with abstract expressionism, known for his large color-field paintings and signature vertical lines called zips.
Quotes by Barnett Newman
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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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.
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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